Nike Plans to Stop Using Amazon Leather
After Greenpeace ‘outed’ Nike’s contribution to the destruction of the Amazon Rain Forest, Nike have announced new standards for stopping the use of Amazon leather in its shoes.
Nike approached Greenpeace for help with the new leather sourcing policy and will be sticking to those standards until guarantees are in place that none of the cattle products they use have come from Amazon land.
Things to consider:“Nike has set a great precedent for Timberland, Adidas, Reebok, and Clarks to follow,” said Greenpeace forests campaigner Lindsey Allen. “Brazil’s cattle industry, which supplies leather for shoes, is responsible for about 80 percent of all deforestation in the Amazon. In fact, the Brazilian cattle industry is the largest single source of deforestation anywhere in the world. And deforestation in turn causes one-fifth of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the world, more than all the world’s cars, trucks, trains, planes, and ships combined.”
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