The Amazon rainforest has experienced a record-setting number of fires this year — with nearly 73,000 fires in 2019 so far, an 83% increase from the same time last year.
Thus, it is important to look into the practices of companies with commercial ties to the Amazon. Afrom Amazon Watch, a nonprofit working to protect the rainforest, identified companies and investors with links to illegal deforestation in Brazil.
"If European and North American financiers and commodities buyers cut ties with Brazilian bad actors, they could use their market power to send a signal to Brazil's leadership that the global community will not tolerate the policies of the new administration," Christian Poirier of Amazon Watch, the report’s lead author,Even if you are not on the board of one of these companies, as a consumer, you can contact the business express your concern, organize a boycott, or spend your...
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