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Sustainability

CONNOISSEUR X WILDARK

The Connoisseur Rainforest Project

Our first project with WildArk took place in the Nakanai Mountains in remote Papua New Guinea. The Tuke village is situated on the island’s central-eastern interior, surrounded by 42,000 acres of pristine virgin rainforest known as Tuke Rainforest Conservancy. The area boasts an extraordinary amount of biodiversity, with many species new to science. The Tuke village is a relatively small community that practises a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and has maintained its traditional culture and way-of-life for thousands of years but is facing exploitation by illegal loggers who clearing enormous tracts of forest around the island.

The Connoisseur Rainforest Project sponsored the education of secondary school children living in Tuke Village in 2021. We also funded new desks and chairs for the village school, and built permanent housing for the school teacher in the village.

The Connoisseur Rainforest Project aims to ensure the Tuke community is engaged and benefits from protecting their rainforest. WildArk is working on a long-term plan to ensure the community can sustainably maintain their way of life and not fall victim to short-term compensation from loggers.

SUSTAINABLE COCOA

RAINFOREST ALLIANCE

Every sku in the Connoisseur range that uses cocoa is now 100% Rainforest Alliance certified. This means that Connoisseur sources it’s cocoa responsibly by buying from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms. The Rainforest Alliance seal on packaging identifies that the cocoa is grown using methods that promote a better future for people and nature.

 

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RECYCABLE PACKAGING

Connoisseur is making a conscious effort to ensure all our packaging is recyclable. Currently our ice cream tubs, lids and multipack cartons are all recyclable, and our individual soft plastic wrappers are check locally by council. We are proudly supporting the National Plastics Recycling Scheme (NPRS) as part of our commitment to finding a solution to soft plastics recycling.

The wooden sticks from our stick products are FSC certified, sourced from logs that are traceable to sustainably managed forests and are 100% compliant with FSC regulations. Using wood that is compliant with FSC regulations ensure the highest respect for ecological, social and ethical standard.

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