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Bad beef: UK retailers feed illegal deforestation fears as JBS corned beef imports persist
05.05.2019 JBS has faced multiple corruption charges and was fined £6.5m in 2017 for illegal Amazon deforestation yet Sainsbury's, Lidl and Morrisons among supermarkets selling its corned beef
Europe must not be complicit in Bolsonaro’s attacks on forests
15.04.2019 New civil society briefing calls on the EU and its member states to guarantee they will not be complicit in Bolsonaro’s dismantling of environmental protections in Brazil
French retailers failing to comply with due diligence law for soy imports
11.04.2019 Companies including Burger King, E.Leclerc and Lidl among those failing to adequately monitor their supply chains in Latin America
Not a single company on track to meet 2020 zero-deforestation deadline
27.03.2019 Forest 500 report shows no palm oil, soy, cattle or timber firm that committed to eliminate deforestation from supply chains by 2020 will meet that goal
Groups warn Bolsonaro seeks to turn indigenous people into slave labour for big ag
18.03.2019 Since coming to power, President Jair Bolsonaro has taken controversial steps to undermine environmental and indigenous protections
A quarter of Brazil’s new congress tainted by campaign donations from illegal deforesters
04.03.2019 A new Repórter Brasil investigations finds illegal land clearers and parties linked to slave labour backed congress members
A Roadmap to Failure
07.02.2019 Why the EU’s action plan on deforestation must be beefed up to be effective
Illegal cattle ranching in protected Rondônia reserve has wiped out nearly half its forests
23.01.2019 Large-scale cattle ranchers are illegally rearing an estimated 100,000 heads of cattle at the Jaci-Paraná extractive reserve in the Amazon state
