• Good news for a Friday: eat chocolate and save a rainforest?
    It feels like a nature conservation marketing dream, but we are getting closer to the day when we can ask people to eat a chocolate bar to help save a rainforest. Let me explain... The RSPB is developing...
  • Good new for a Friday: eat chocolate and help save the Curlew
    If you are short of ideas as to what to buy your loved ones this Easter, then why not try new limited-edition chocolate curlew eggs made by artisan chocolatier Mirrie Dancers. They're palm oil/soya lecithin...
  • All aboard to save the rainforests
    The Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, was in London this week, stopping off on her way to the UN climate talks in Copenhagen. The nice people at Greenpeace kindly invited me to join them at a...
  • What can Gola Rainforest chocolate do for nature and people?
    The first phase of fieldwork has just been completed on an exciting interdisciplinary project in Sierra Leone. Social scientist Dr Natasha Constant and ecologist Dr Fiona Sanderson report back. The...
  • Good news for a Friday: chocolate that works for people and wildlife
    If, for whatever reason, you are still in need of a dose optimism , here is an update by my colleague, Jake di Paolo (Project Research Officer, Gola Cocoa), on work we are doing in West Africa helping...