Our employees have become much more aware during recent years of the beauties of nature, understanding why it is so crucial to find a balance between nature conservation and productive land.

Hopefully you can relax over the weekend as much as the group of howler monkeys that we just spotted for the first time in the bamboo which forms part of our organic cacao mixed culture.

A wonderful example from our teak plantation in Ecuador of how important it is to preserve remaining trees even on former pastureland when establishing a commercial plantation.