The Brazil Nut To Save The Amazon Rainforest?

The accelerating deforestation is part of everyone's common knowledge by now although it belongs to those topics which people preferably tend to ignore and hide in the back of their memories.. (I bet after having started to read this first sentence your first thought was something like, oh no, please not that moral blackmailing again.. but don't worry, this is interesting and it doesn't end with the number of a bank account for your donations!)
Anyway, while Brazil is facing serious deforestation its neighbour Bolivia has discovered the Brazil nut for a demanding and increasingly interested world market. According to a bbc-report Bolivia, South America's poorest country, now has an 80% share of the world market and with over $5000 a ton enjoys good export earnings and many jobs while at the same time ensuring the maintenance of the nut trees in the rainforest. It's illegal to chop them down so people look after them to sustain the market for the nuts and thus their jobs. A tree can live up to 300 years and grow as huge as 50m! I don't think I've ever tried these nuts:
Ironically, Bolivia profits from Brazil's deforestation which resulted in Brazil's export in nuts having gone down 50% since 2000.
Apparently there's a project which uses the discarded nutshells as fuel for generators and they're trying to convey this knowledge back to Brazil from where the nut has its name originally.. nice gesture among poor neighbours, isn't it?