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Multiple national award winning organisation that makes tasty natural grain/gluten free dog treats out of rainforest superfood ingredients.
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The funds we raise help us develop our rainforest conservation projects!

13/05/2024

Thanks for 100k followers, folks 🥵🌱

The last 9 months have been a blast, to say I’m happy with the Tribe of curious, eager knowledge seekers (you lot 🤓) that’ve joined me on this journey would be an understatement!

Huge thanks to each and every one of you that’s stuck around whilst I’ve rambled on about our planet’s species and wild places - for 235 videos 😲

For my supporters, thank you for encouraging me and pushing me to show you (and myself!) more of the world we live in 🌍

And for my haters, thank you for challenging me and fuelling my efforts to prove you wrong 🤪

Here’s to the next 235 “And now you know!”s 😎

05/11/2023

We were so nervous going up on stage 😅

Winning our awards meant a hell of a lot to us; the efforts of our tiny rainforest conservation organisation getting recognised nationally??? Crazy!

We certainly couldn’t have done it without you folks 🥰

If you’d like to support a small business this festive period, one that’s trying to save our planet’s wild places, then give our handmade natural pet products a go! They’re made with rainforest superfoods and wild British invasive species 🌱

And 50% of the profits help us fund our conservation projects in the bush 👨🏾‍🌾👩🏾‍🌾

Join our Tribe and give the gift of rainforest conservation, link in bio (UK only, for now!)

31/07/2023

Our ground team go to great lengths (and heights!) to source the wild ingredients used in our natural pet treats 🌱

So next time your 4-legged pal tucks into our range, just think of the adventure that’s going on in their mouths 🥳🎉

27/07/2023

Do you know why we use invasive species in our pet treats? 👀🐾

We started The Rainforester to make a difference to our planet’s wild places 🌱

With an ever-growing pressure on farmers in the UK to meet our pets’ (and our own!) requirements, often at the expense of vital habitats, we decided to do things a little differently 🧐

By using wild species that have a disproportionately negative impact on their ecosystems, we can alleviate some of the pressure whilst doing our bit to reduce their effects on their neighbouring species 🦌

Check out the slides for a few reasons why we use the species that we do! 🦞

25/07/2023

Elephants are well-known ecosystem engineers, wherever these massive pachyderms go their presence is made clear by the effects they have on their surrounding landscape. Left to their own devices, elephants wield the power (and appetite) to transform their habitat 🐘

BUT these animals don’t just effect habitats and other organisms on a large scale, they’re vital for some of the little guys too!

Weighing in at upwards of 6,000 kilograms, it’s no surprise that elephants tend to leave a trace of themselves wherever they walk. What is a surprise though, is that their footprints can be up to 30cm deep and can hold substantial amounts of water – 200 litres, in the case of one recorded pool formed of two merged footprints in Uganda 💧

As elephants walk through the forest, they leave deep footprints behind them. These footprints then fill up with water, creating little foot-shaped microhabitats for at least 61 different invertebrate and micro-invertebrate species as well as for frogs and toads throughout their life stages 🐸

Elephants are truly incredible, they do so much for the environments that they reside in, from seed dispersal to land clearing and even population control, this ‘Did you know?’ post is just one more reminder of what we can lose if the ongoing poaching crisis affecting Africa’s elephants continues to eliminate these essential animals from their habitats 🌱

13/07/2023

Breakfast of champions 😮‍💨

Our tasty (and healthy!) meal toppers are suitable for pets as soon as they’ve been weaned 🐶🐱🐭🦍

(And our treats are great from 3-4 months!)

Thank you for sharing your mealtime with us 😁

03/07/2023

Congrats to and their chosen charity: 🥳

Your treats and toppers will be on their way soon and we can’t wait for you to tuck in! 🕺🏾

The response to this giveaway was truly humbling (over 500 comments... and I lost count twice while trying to get to the randomly generated number...) 🙃😂

Thank you so much to all that participated, and we hope you’ll join us in celebrating the pets in the chosen charity that’ll be enjoying our nature-saving treats soon 🌱🐾

01/07/2023

Guess where we’re going? 👀

Well pops is at least, I still live at the factory making tasty pet treats and food toppers for your 4-legged pals 🐶🐱🐭

It’s been a fair few years since we’ve been able to venture into the original rainforests that we work in! 😮‍💨

Between the lockdowns, financial crises, local governmental voting issues (riots 🙃) and just keeping up with your orders – we haven’t been blessed with much time to plan a visit, but that changes now 🤸🏾‍♂️

We are so excited to be able to show you, over this short trip, at the very least a snippet of how our profits are used for our various projects, where our ingredients come from, how your purchases have provided jobs for local communities and some of the native wildlife that we are fighting so hard to protect 🌱

Stay tuned for a bunch of updates! 🌍

29/06/2023

NTFPS aren’t exclusive to exotic far away rainforests! Did you know you can find examples of them as close as in your own garden too? 🧠💭

Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena) is a common garden plant here in the UK that gets its name from its ‘mist’ of needle-like leaves that surround its flower 🌸

Although now widely spread across much of the temperate world, this annual herbaceous plant likely originated in Turkey or Crete, where it would have been used for culinary, medicinal and cosmetic purposes 🌍

Today, the plant’s jet black seeds are still used as a condiment (eaten raw or cooked) and taste like nutmeg, they also produce essential oil often used in perfumes and, amongst many other facts, the dried seed pods can be sniffed to restore a lost sense of smell! 🤧

29/06/2023

Quick and easy dinners are the best!

Using and !

Both brilliant to make a balanced quick and easy dinner 🍽

19/06/2023

A very happy belated Father’s Day to this gentleman, scholar and all-round mad genius ⚡️

couldn’t be where it is today without all that you’ve done and sacrificed!

It’s certainly been a bumpy ride – and it’ll likely get a whole lot bumpier, but I couldn’t ask for a better partner in crime to roll through the punches with.

Much love pops ❤️

25/05/2023

What’s your favourite pet product range? 👀🐾

Wholesome food toppers vs superfood-based treats vs peanut-based treats 🤺🥊

06/05/2023

We’re giving away 5x £20 vouchers for our pet product store, and it’s super easy to enter! 🐾

To enter all you have to do is:

1. Send in a video of your pet(s) enjoying our treats and toppers (all tricks, sillies and cheekies encouraged!)

2. (Optional) Like our Instagram/pages

We’ll shortlist the entries and the voters will be the folks over on our social media accounts, the 5 videos with the most votes will win (and you can win more than once!) so if you’re already a follower on our socials, don’t forget to share the posts and get your friends and family involved 😁

UK only. Entries close ‪at midnight on Sunday 21st May, voting will start on the following day and winners will be announced on the 26th, spread the word and good luck everyone! 🥳

Need a top up? Use code ‘NTFP’ for 10% off your next order! 🕺🏾

29/04/2023

Our hearts are so full right now 🥰 some recent online store reviews that made us smile and do a little happy dance 🕺🏾

10/04/2023

How adorable is Willow? One of our biggest and yet gentlest customers! 🥰

I reckon she enjoyed her Hairy Wild Rabbit Kuli Kuli biccy 👀🤓

Don’t forget you can use code TRTOPPERS for 20% off all of our natural food toppers 🙏🏾🌱

07/04/2023

Is it a fruit? Is it a nut? No, it's a dry drupe! 🥥

In today’s blog post, learn about a few of the different ways coconut can benefit you and your pets 🌴🐾

www.therainforester.org/blog/is-it-a-fruit-is-it-a-nut-no-its-a-dry-drupe

05/04/2023

Bluebell season is upon us! So we’ve got a fun fact for you: did you know over half of our planet’s bluebells are found in the UK? 💙

Because of this, the bluebell is the unofficially recognised as our national flower! (Though the official position is held by the rose) 🌹

05/04/2023

Use code TRTOPPERS for 20% off all of our natural food toppers 🙏🏾🌱

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