John Easterling

John Easterling, who has also been called “Amazon John,” is the founder of Amazon Herb Co. He started his career searching the Amazon Rainforest for treasures and ancient artifacts. A personal health crisis led him to experience the health-giving benefits of the local rainforest botanicals. That experience made him realize that the true treasures of the rainforest are its natural plants. Working with local health practitioners, John Easterling created Amazon Herb Co. to share the health benefits he experienced, with others.

Because Amazon Herb Co. was created with the help of local people John Easterling has also found a way to help indigenous people to protect their land and their ways of life. During his years in the rainforest he has had many opportunities to participate in philanthropic endeavors. The Amazon Herb Co. teamed up with the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER) Foundation to bring teachers and environmental education and programs to children in rainforest villages. It also sponsored the formation of the Rio Pisqui Federation to unite the local communities that lie along the isolated River Pisqui. John Easterling has been involved with several villages throughout the forest. In recognition of all the contributions he and the Amazon Herb Co. have made The Regional Institute of Growth for Native Communities, which represents many indigenous communities, formally granted a letter of appreciation to Amazon Herb Co.

In 2008, John Easterling was featured in Jean-Michel Cousteau’s documentary Ocean Adventures: Return to the Amazon. He and the Amazon Herb Co. were recognized as “the strongest testament that keeping the Rainforest alive and productive is more economically profitable than cutting it down.” By sharing the positive benefits that the rainforest has to offer and helping the indigenous people to realize the potential of their land and their way of life, John Easterling and the Amazon Herb Co. have come a long way in protecting the Amazon rainforest.