Rainforests are being wiped out to produce beef and soy, or make way for palm oil plantations so powerful corporations can rake in staggering profits.

Dear John

Destruction of the Amazon surged to record levels in the first 4 months of this year [1]. Vast areas are being levelled to produce soy for animal feed, and land cleared for cattle ranches.

And in Asia, rainforests and their precious orangutangs, tigers and elephants are being wiped out to make way for palm oil plantations. All so powerful corporations can rake in staggering profits selling products containing it, like the biscuits, bread and soap on supermarket shelves [2].

But the devastation linked to British companies is almost totally hidden from us – buried in their global supply chains [3]. And right now, there’s no way to hold them to account when their products are linked with harm.

With your support we're campaigning for a new law to hold companies to account for damaging the environment, destroying wildlife and hurting communities. And we need to raise crucial funds now to make the campaign as powerful as possible.

If you can, will you help us by chipping in with a donation?
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With your help our team of experts can
* Trace and expose the links between everyday brands and the mass destruction of rainforests for commodities like soy, beef and palm oil.
* Build an irrefutable case for a new law by revealing the hidden impacts of UK companies’ supply chains through investigation and research.
* Grow a movement – building public pressure to show MPs they need to get behind this new law.

If you can, please do support us with a donation today.
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With evidence showing that the Amazon rainforest may be much closer to a tipping point than previously thought [4], we can’t afford to see more forests sacrificed to grow profits. Otherwise they could be lost forever [5].

Habitats are being destroyed. Communities are being forced from their land and homes. And in the UK, the factory farms feeding soy from the Amazon and Cerrado [6] to chickens and pigs are polluting our rivers and soil – threatening wildlife here at home, as well as overseas.

Between the devastating impacts on the ground and the food on our plates is a supply chain where companies are profiting from harm. But it doesn’t have to be like this.

With your help we can secure a new law that forces companies to act to prevent harm in their supply chains.

It’s not going to happen instantly. But changing the way the world works really is possible. So if you can, please make a donation today.
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Thank you so much for all your support.

All the best,

Clare Oxborrow
Senior Sustainability Analyst

NOTES:
[1] Brazil's Amazon deforestation hits April record, nearly double previous peak, Reuters ([link removed])
[2] Palm oil firms depriving tribes of millions of dollars, BBC News Indonesia ([link removed])
[3] What are supply chains and why do they matter? ([link removed])
[4] Forest loss remained stubbornly high in 2021, Global Forest Watch ([link removed])
[5] Tipping point for the Amazon is the point at which the rainforest loses its ability to recover from the effects of changing weather patterns, droughts and fires and begins to turn, irreversibly, into a dry savannah. This would result in a huge loss of biodiversity and increased carbon emissions. Find out more ([link removed])
[6] The Cerrado is Brazil’s tropical savannah.

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