Brazilian condoms to save rainforest?

Brazil has opened a £10m condom factory to help preserve its rainforest and fight the spread of HIV and AIDS.

It will produce 100m condoms a year – that will be freely distributed by the Brazilian Government – from latex manually extracted from its rainforests.
Brazilian rubber tappers will be able to harvest latex from the trees to supply the factory based in the north-western town of Xapuri.

The Brazilian Government said the rubber tappers will protect the trees and the rainforest to ensure their livelihood.

They argued that the scheme will give both the rubber tappers and local residents an economic stake in the rainforest and reduce pressure to cut down the forest. It is believed around 500 families will benefit from the scheme.

Rubber tappers in the Acre state, where the factory is based, produce about 6.2m tpa of latex but the new factory is expected to increase demand by around 500,000 tpa. At the moment most of Brazil’s condom supply is imported.

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