Illegal leather - How the car industry is threatening the rainforest

Brazil’s tannery industry exports products worth 1.5 billion Euros every year. Cattle meat and hides are a huge economic driver. But this business often involves the illegal destruction of the rainforest for grazing land. "The forest is our home. And now it’s all being destroyed forever.” Wenatoa...

42 min - Planet & Climate - DW Documentary

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