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Brazilian slaughterhouses fail to fully meet first deadline for stopping Amazon...

Feature story | April 5, 2010 at 18:00

In a meeting on April 5th with Greenpeace, the major slaughterhouses of Brazil — including JBS/Bertin, Marfrig and Minerva — showed insufficient progress to comply with the first step in the Zero Deforestation Agreement they signed six months ago...

Leather industry giant moves to end Amazon destruction

Feature story | August 13, 2009 at 18:00

Bertin, the world’s largest leather exporter, is joining the fight against deforestation and climate change by finally doing the right thing and backing the call for a moratorium on buying cattle from farms responsible for Amazon deforestation...

Slaughtering the Amazon

Publication | May 31, 2009 at 18:00

The cattle sector in the Brazilian Amazon is the largest driver of deforestation in the world, responsible for an average of one acre lost every 8 seconds. Efforts to halt global deforestation emissions must tackle this sector.

Cattle industry giant Marfrig takes lead in ending Amazon destruction

Media release | June 22, 2009 at 18:00

The world’s fourth largest beef trader, Marfrig, announced a moratorium last night that will prevent the company from buying cattle raised in newly deforested areas within the Amazon(1). The move by Marfrig comes in the wake of the release of an...

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