Sustainability

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.

Connoisseur is thrilled to be a partner of REDCycle, an organisation diverting packaging from landfill and turning them into resources used for new products.

Instead of your ice cream wrappers ending up in landfill, REDcycle turns these wrappers into a huge range of products ranging from outdoor furniture to signage.

Whenever possible, ensure you’re disposing of your Connoisseur ice cream wrapper in a REDcycle bin located at participating retailers.