Given the progressing climate change, the importance of functioning rain forests becomes ever more obvious. Brazil has an extraordinary importance to this extent, as a part of the largest connected rainforest regions located at the Amazonas. vita has supported the work of WWF Deutschland (www.wwf.de) in this context.

The World Wide Fund for Nature is among the world’s biggest and most experienced natural preservation organisations with activities in more than 100 countries. The WWF’s utmost concern is to preserve the rainforests at the Amazonas. The organisation strives to have 60 million hectare of rainforest permanently protected by 2016. WWF Deutschland assumed responsibility for an important part of the overall project by supporting the Juruena national park in the context of this program. It is an essential element of a variety of nature reservations that serve to prevent the forest clearings approaching from the south. As the support of the environment and nature is a key purpose of the foundation, vita has funded the realisation of the boundary mark for the Juruena national park in September 2008.