Top name brands implicated in Amazon destruction
The new Greenpeace report, “Slaughtering the Amazon,” is the product of a three-year investigation into Brazil’s cattle industry, which is the country’s chief source of CO2 emissions and the single largest driver of deforestation anywhere in the world. Our investigation exposed the Brazilian government’s complicity in bankrolling deforestation in the Amazon, as well as several top name shoe brands – such as Adidas, Nike, Reebok, and Timberland – whose supply chains are linked to the cattle ranchers who are illegally slaughtering the Amazon. An aerial view of man-made forest fires intended to clear land for cattle and farming.
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