⚠️CAREFUL—Try not buy cars with leather interiors—much of the leather for cars comes from illegally deforested ranches in the Amazon rainforest. In the United States, much of the demand for Brazilian leather comes from automakers. nytimes.com/2021/11/17/cli…
2) A New York Times investigation into Brazil’s rapidly expanding slaughterhouse industry has identified loopholes in its monitoring systems that allow hides from cattle kept on illegally deforested Amazon land to flow undetected through 🇧🇷‘s tanneries and on to buyers worldwide.
3) more than 600 operate in an area of the Amazon known as Jaci-Paraná, a protected environmental reserve where deforestation is restricted. & illegal transactions are the linchpins of a complex global trade that links Amazon deforestation to appetite for luxurious leather seats
4) A luxury vehicle can require a dozen or more hides, and suppliers in the United States increasingly buy their leather from Brazil.
5) While the Amazon region is one of the world’s major providers of beef, global appetite for affordable leather also means that the hides of these millions of cattle supply a lucrative international leather market valued in the hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
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