THE BIODIVERSITY
TRACEABILITY PROJECT

Teas with this score have the highest amount of biodiversity in the area where they’re growing. Included in this category are our few completely wild teas that grow in the jungle without any human intervention on the surrounding nature as well as the teas grown in the most biodiverse areas. Our mission in areas with score A is to simply maintain the natural state of things, making sure that people are rewarded to conserve these unique habitats.

Teas in this category grow in highly biodiverse areas where there still might be room for improvement for different reasons. Soil quality could be less than optimal, the number of old large trees could be higher and the space between tea plants could be too narrow to name a few examples. Here we work with the communities to implement short- and long-term solutions while also maintaining the already existing biodiversity.

Teas in this category are growing in less biodiverse areas where we are prioritizing efforts to restore nature and improve ecosystem services. An example that falls into this category is our newly started Mae Salong Reforestation Project where we have long-term plans of turning a conventional monoculture plantation into a tea forest. Having teas that are not forest-grown and categorizing them as Forest Friendly Tea Category C allow us to work not only with maintaining nature, but also bringing it back. Buying a tea with biodiversity score C is equally as important in supporting our work as teas from the higher scores since this allows us to increase our work in restoring monoculture plantations.