Slaughtering the Amazon and the Earth

When you lace up your favorite pair of shoes, you could unknowingly be unraveling the Amazon rainforest. It turns out leather coming from the Amazon rainforest is being used to make a number of consumer products, perhaps even the Nike, Adidas, Timberland, or Reebok shoes you're wearing right now.

Take Action NOW >> Tell Adidas, Nike and others that every step counts when it comes to saving the Amazon, so it’s time they step up.

clipped from gpeace.convio.net Our new report, Slaughtering the Amazon, tracks leather, beef, and other cattle products from ranches in the Amazon that are involved in illegal deforestation, slave labor, and abuses of Indigenous rights to a complex global supply chain that is laundering Amazon deforestation and feeding the demand for raw resources to make popular name brand products