Busy Bees

Who wouldn’t love a bonus of 7% a year for doing absolutely nothing? Thanks to tropical forest fragments, that’s exactly what happened to one Costa Rica coffee farm. Coffee beans love bees, bees love forests, and we do too. How about you?

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Forests support bee populations, increase pollination and yields of coffee beans, and raise profits by $62,000 per year for a Costa Rica coffee farm - all for free.
Mangrove fringes support fish catch worth $25,000 per km in the Sea of Cortez (aka Gulf of California), Mexico.

Mangrove Fringe

Fish abound in the Sea of Cortez (also known as the Gulf of California). Species like blue crab, catfish, and snapper love its rich waters. But did you know that one kilometer of mangrove fringe is worth $25,000 of fish catch?

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Cash Crab in the Caeté Estuary

We can’t find the mangrove crab, but the people of the Caeté Estuary in northeastern Brazil can. Good thing too, because over half of them depend on it.

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More than half the 13,000 people of the Caete Estuary, Brazil depend on the mangrove crab for income.