Global Witness publishes new research on ranching in Brazil’s cattle capital, Mato Grosso state and impact on deforestation

Deforestation linked to the Brazilian trio was nearly five times greater in the Cerrado area of Mato Grosso than in its Amazon territory, where in the latter the companies have legal agreements for monitoring their supplies. One in three cows (36%) that the companies bought from the Cerrado within Mato Grosso came from farms with illegally deforested land…