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has been keeping a very low profile in deep folks in recent months. you know, thank you very much. that was our chief political correspondent, nina awesome. you're watching dw news coming to you live in berlin. i'm terry martin. thank the ukraine was like a stepping points. it's, you know, 5 or 2 into that warranty wants to be finished. your studies. now you have a certificate from the train. you can just go back or somewhere else, come and see more people than ever on the move in such a passion, life gag. we've something that is coming very, very soon. and yeah, can we learn more about or know when a story info, migraines? the amazon is burning every day more than 2000 hector's of rain forests are legally destroyed. an area 6 times the size of new york's central park punch keeping the
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forest is only preserved around the village. beyond that everything has been destroyed. must feel like businesses are driving whole tribes out of the forest. they live and there is no rule of law. only the law of the jungle. those guys are very connect as they can present in a 2nd harm us. so we need to be more careful the forest is destroyed primarily to make way for a legal grazing land for cattle raised for meat and leather. for example, these commodities reach the world market via convoluted supply chains. we follow the trail of these a legal goods from deep inside the brazilian rain forest all the way to germany. we talked a politician's and industry representatives, met environmental activists, journalists, and dubious business owners in the amazon. again and again,
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various individuals and groups can do to our investigation. over time, we started to suspect something shocking to products linked to illegal deforestation in the m, as on end up in german luxury cars the every year in september unit coasts, the international motor show germany, one of the largest mobility trade stairs in the world. this is where our research ended the industry's involvement in international environmental crimes and the rain forest began. ad banners were everywhere. these days businesses including automakers, pay a lot of lip service to the mobility, climate protection and resource conservation. sustainability has become a buzzword, but in fact, most of the visitors here weren't that interested. not to do this good that you care about sustainability supposed and you have an event. not really just the
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important resources have to come from somewhere and what is sustainability anyway? it's an attitude top executives in the german car industry seem to share, protecting the environment, costs money, and there's growing competition from china, only $1.00 and $3.00 executives worry about environmental concerns. that's the so bring conclusion that the international study understand we are looking at the issue and there's going to be more of a priority. yes. but it requires capital and raises the question of where to invest . we started seeing hints that german automakers don't look too closely at where materials come from, especially the leather used and luxury car, interiors. our search for answers 1st took us to the east coast of the u. s. we arrange to meet alexander fund bismark, a leading figure in the fight against the legal deforestation. we met him in his
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favorite place, rock creek park in washington, dc. the of the german american environmental activist has an interesting background. he's a former us marine who became an undercover investigator looking into illegal deforestation in asia and africa. the real criminals, he told us, are not the people on the ground in the amazon target as well. the question is, where does the money come from? where's the pressure coming from atlantics and i soon find out that it often comes from our country's land on collins today. von, bismarck is director of the environmental investigation agency, an international organization fighting climate and environmental crime using state of the art technology. he and his team are dedicated to exposing the operations, perpetrating these offenses. the i says huge profits are being made, not only with would golden diamonds, but above all with the legal grazing land for cattle. in other words,
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with products such as meat, milk, and leather, which end up on the international market. the most items. and it's important to understand that large scale criminal activity in the amazon is causing us to lose the forest. the good and the tragedy is that we, people who don't want to be involved are, in fact bank ruling these crimes because in the scale to see the come in at the dates and then see if it's a gigantic market. every year. brazil exports around $500000.00 tons of cowhide, almost half of which goes to the international auto industry. it's estimated that some 50 to 60000000 capital are required to meet the annual demand for leather upholstery and cars. that's around 300 square kilometers of count on an area bigger than the city of frankford. these huge profits make the amazon a hub of criminal activity. and those wanting to shed some light source are putting
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themselves in danger, or we can towers as defend would have if you want to follow the money, you have to do a lot of research including under cover where i'm, i'm process a lot of data that we use innovative technologies and other methods to trace what's happening, but even unfortunately this research is incredibly dangerous, especially for a low cost defending the forest. it's light of 1 o'clock. let's get fairly these a. these other session on how the struggle on the ground is laid by indigenous peoples were defending their forest and their future and you have, i don't get it to come for typing. despite the risks, we continued our journey heading to ground 0 of the problem, brazil fund bismark and his team promised to keep up the research back in washington. and help us when they could. our 1st stop was cell power of the economic capital of south america. there we met journalist isabel
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herrera. she works for reporter brazil and association of investigative journalists and has been doing her own research in the rain forest. when i talk about the, the destruction of the amazon and then investigated for the template them to do and looking at the supply chain for them and talk to be careful. we're talking about a lot of money and a lot of entries behind isabel is currently working with a team making a film about the murder of investigative journalist tom phillips. phillips was exposing environmental crimes in the amazon when he was shot dead on a boat in the jungle. in 2022 the owner was really keen on the safety, so he was, he wasn't reckless. when you're reporting either amazon, i live with the 1st station id go mining, i did go looking at the and it's,
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it's dangerous just to meet there. do you have any advice? what? so we shouldn't be careful about when we go there. and there's always someone listening, so the way of that, isabel put us in touch with a colleague who comes from the region and knows his way around. we then made our way to the amazon a massive area that's almost twice the size of the you. at the airport at the regional capital monro box, we met you or isabel is colleagues. from here we plan to drive to a p t r a y, a remote region. deep in the rain forest fury estimated. we'd need almost 2 days for the journey done by off road vehicle boat and on foot illegal deforestation in a p. today, y is set to up,
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become particularly dramatic recent years. we wanted to find out who's behind. what we saw on roots was not how we had pictured the amazon. we saw candle passengers everywhere and hardly any jungle. probably during the entire trip we would not see so much for rating for us as we possibly the way we were and kids, you know, the biome heater changes a lot. we're going to see a lot of cattle ranchers, farms, sometimes on the mines. so it doesn't change a lot during the past that gets and that change shows no sign of stopping again and again, we saw evidence of slash and burn agriculture scorched trees and chart stumps. after about 6 hours of driving, we arrived in south and leaks the end of the road. judy found
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a guide willing to take us up the single river to a p t r a y those are about which one with the red roof, right? that the indigenous product cannot people live up today why live from the forest and its destruction threatens their livelihood? criminal farmers, even minutes them in their own villages. the tribal leaders were ready to welcome us, none the less you to gain the trust to go in there. it's a been an honor for us to which means that there we have of that trust. so it's good. this in go is one of the main rivers in the amazon. it's banks are home to numerous indigenous communities. we made slower progress then we'd hoped the region is currently experiencing unprecedented travelers. our
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guide was forced to navigate carefully to avoid getting stuck in the 15 minutes, we can see the beginning of the up in our right side. we finally reached our destination after 8 hours until the 1970s, the per ok and uh were completely isolated. today they live in a protected area as large as bizarre lawn region in germany. economic exploitation is prohibited and the product or not are trying to maintain their traditional way of life. but criminal businesses are penetrating, deeper and deeper into their territory. the tribal leader had just taken in some people fleeing neighboring villages after they had been threatened by armed men. but they weren't safe here either. suddenly, as uh,
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we have been getting threats for a long time each year, but it's getting worse. doesn't she said these days the interpretations are constant warming thing on their classes in the forest have become frequent. come was using those. and as soon as we are hunters into customizable, we go into the woods and hunts mania. dear. and why am i bore out the cause of this and see if i saw his name and it's become more difficult to to the phone or is coming to our lines is coming, was transferred to another causing fader. and so here we must travel longer and longer. distance is to hunt underneath you already invited us to accompany the hunters into the jungle. he said they could best explain what the worsening deforestation means for the part i cannot people yeah. but, but in the past we always had enough. uh, but uh,
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we only take as much of the forest as we need to to uh, order them. it says the white people have been taking the forest away from us. we sometimes most travel for days out of, uh a while the hunters continued deeper into the jungle. we returned to the village to meet when a tow a park. and she's the 1st female tribal leader. she told us, some of the men have secretly started doing business with the criminals. that's why the village had decided to put a woman in charge. she's considered incorruptible. to florida for us. now, the forest is on life. a mother or father a home. it's a future. it's a paradise for our children. if it continues to be destroyed, it will soon be gone forever. there will be no more of the po and we need to breeds . not only for us here in the forest, but also for white people,
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for the whole world. to use this to win a to is ready to fight for the forest. although the for rock and i'll have the law on their side, the jungles destruction remains on checked. the finals made by white people don't seem to be working. i wonder the people who buy cattle from here even think about what they are doing. they're also complicit in the destruction of a forest in a peter re well. so they buy the products from these invaders in finance. what they're doing for kidd south will put all these stones down to the store. but who are these people destroying the forest to make way for their herds of cattle? are they working for the international corporations? we met up with alexander from bismark again. his colleagues had been able to gather
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some information about these a legal businesses team leader, rec jacobson, had worked his way through check in took amounts of data. thank getting documents from local authorities, financial databases and aerial photographs. the confirmed with the power can now have long set, legal profit tiers are destroying the local forest. at a rapid pace. you can see up to $31.00 of the largest areas, deforestation the entire design, amazon. and you may have noticed an acceleration just in the last few years. exactly. as i said in this area here, skyrocketing of deforestation, if we know from a satellite analysis that most of that before, so land has been covered and in the past year. and what you can see here very clearly are hundreds of tasks and you could literally count the house using satellite images, photo analysis, and statistical evaluations. the team was able to establish how the criminals proceed. what our investigation found is that cattle are often transferred between
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multiple farms during the course of their life before they're sold for slaughter. that makes it very difficult to link the legal deforestation or cause may have been raised with the cider house. rick calls the system cattle laundering because it works in a similar way to money laundering. all traces of illegal dealings are raced. explain that account raised on a legally cleared land is sold to a farm outside the area that farm then legally sells the animal to international corporations from they are the products made from the animals like meat, milk, and leather, end up on the global market. the consumers in germany at the far end of the supply chain are therefore unwittingly contributing to deforestation in the amazon. yeah, there's a lot of evidence for that systemic and the amazon has been the growth region for
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the business and cut off the street for more than exec. so all across the amazon, we've seen slaughterhouses whether tanner is popping up right in the heart of where the deforestation is happening. the analysis, employing innovative research methods provided even more detail, like identifying numerous suspicious individuals the band collecting and using very large data sets of count transport permits, which has been vital and essential to mixing together parts of a single change. we've also collected these data sets with deforestation data sets with real property data sets that that show who owns which property. the trail leads to several large farms which according to the register belonged to the states are in his relatives, a well known local family. the we traveled back to the amazon to find out who's
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buying the family's goods and whether there really are connections to german automakers. we made up with you already again. who had bad news. he said the security situation had deteriorated since our last visit. he showed his recent footage shot by security forces, attempts to disarm criminals and crack down and illegal livestock farming in the area had resulted in clashes with the police during which several farmers and security guards were injured. the, this is one of the 3 things to find the you are investigating something here in, in, in dallas, on anything connected to the gallery. the footage also shows an influential lawyer who works for the farmers filming the action. his lawyer told me that he owns, he's on the airplane to, to visit the errors, to visit the farms of his clients. so it shows how hope are off today is business.
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our research started to make some waves, the same lawyer began railing against us on social media morning as bother worse about us and claiming we wanted to harm the country. exposure to i know they'll be coming soon and i've taken a closer look at what they're doing. they're making fun of our homeland. they use image sequences to manipulate opinions. they're violating brazil sovereignty. those guys are very connected. so any news, any information they spread very fast, you know, it doesn't matter if it's true or not. if you try doing any kind of interview with a farmer, they probably would say no if they just say no, it's good for us because right now maybe they can do something worse than just say no, no, they can france in the house. they can no do anything to harm us, so we need to be more careful. but judy also had some good news. he'd
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manage to obtain confidential documents from the public prosecutor's office, in motor bar. in them, he repeatedly came across a familiar name, caesar and we got in touch with the investigators and motor by the regional capital. prosecutor egos spend all the agreed to talk to us. he said the scale of the problem is vast. may not be that a while alone, the territory of the product cannot investigators have identified some 80 suspects and more than 60000 suspected illegal cattle point someone come on to and i think it was a lot of work and it was a vast amounts of data and this is a large swath of land um we employed complex methods, a new programs including a i to filter all the data and evaluated who the research for. so the prosecutor
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set former presidential here. both scenario had downright boycotted the investigation during his time in office, the far right politician had promoted the rain forests commercial exploitation. now under left this the president lou let us silva. the government has changed to attack the you is also exerting increasing pressure. but on the ground, it's still a battle of david versus goliath. it's like it's in pain points to convince him that you can only come by sizes over time. these businesses from a more and more money into the region. i've seen their owners to move up the social letter on the internet. okay. it doesn't take much, they don't have to buy the land. and they just occupier. so i multiply their wells quickly. this is also thought this was the plan to get closer and closer to political power. the simplest thing i'm going to put the control in the way it is some kind of organized crime. you know, it's one of those claims which we've, we've treated this phase legally mafia like activity in the middle of the amazon
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and additional apparatus that struggling to cope. we set out to contact the states are in the farmer whose name appears in the public prosecutor's files and who had been identified by the researchers back in washington. we located his farm quickly using g o coordinates. we wanted to find out who is buying his cattle, which is suspected to be illegal, but we were stopped in our tracts. the farmers land is in the middle of an especially dangerous part of the rain forest, an area that had seen days of unrest. we decided to try another approach we had been contacted by someone in the provincial town of to come said to have inside information that let's try the demand is set to be working with the csr and on a regular basis, how can i help you guys? we'd like to talk to a bit of farmer. i know a lot of farmers were looking for his
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r n. o. so sir? sure, i know him. if he wants, we can talk in my office. not here the street. you know how it is? anyone might be listening. we didn't expect the man to be so open. we followed him inside and continued filming with a hidden camera. in his office, the man picked up the phone to call. the csr saying the farmer was on one of his properties. sees are flat out, refused to talk to us on camera, but he was willing to give us his cell phone number. the suddenly another man entered the office when he heard that we were asking about local farmers. he got angry. i don't know what you want, but it sounds suspicious to me. if you want to drag those farmers here in the amazon through the month. i tell you this thing here for almost 40 years
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previous governments wanted us to make a profit here in the rain forest. no one rambled on about this nature conservation stuff. when we arrived there were no roads, no bridges, no electricity. we've worked hard. we've created wealth and now we're being made out to be pundits. then large parts of the rain for us are now protected in, comprehensible to many here, and complicates the work of public prosecutor ego or spend all your name and not my going. there's a long history of colonization and conquest in the amazon. i can phone our democracy is still young and attitudes towards land occupation are still the same as they've always been. as many people think, this is land that anyone can just take 20 land grabs in the rain forest for personal profit. if the prosecutors figures are correct, the illegal capital in the p today, well protected area alone has
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a market value of more than 50000000 years. the. we drove to a local trans shipping point for cattle transport and called caesar. and we wanted to ask him, who buys? he's a legal kennel o service. good afternoon, mister ceasar, making everything okay with you. i'm fine. you're doing well. what's this about me? it's also saying that he saw caesar and was willing to talk to us, but was clearly angry about the ongoing investigation. he admitted to keeping cattle in the protected area of a p today. what for years when he mentions one of his clients, we can't believe what we're hearing. it's a leading animal processing enterprise companies also thank you very much miss. this is our customer and okay, good bye. he had a meet his dad. he was selling cattle regularly to death and after that also his
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name was under environment. so give us good. not by the cattle anymore. okay. so i'd say be as really enforcing the in bars, his name is under involved. well, but not from his brother. probably townsend still about selling cattle to james to the b s. and in we know that the fact that farms know basically one big farm. so basically the legal team seems to continue, and cbs might still buy capital from, from the family, probably for years now. these are in and some of his family have been running a large scale business selling cattle to j. b. s. one of the world's biggest animal processing companies, affect confirmed by official transport documentation. things were starting to come into focus. farmers had been recently in cattle kept illegally in the protected area of, of peter very well to processing companies such as g b, s. this is how these goods ultimately end up in international supply chains,
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gps exports, fresh meat canned food and cow hides all over the world. according to its own statements, the company has a slaughter capacity of around $30000.00 cattle per day, and brazil alone. that's more than $10000000.00 cattle per year head spinning number the, despite its $1000000000.00 turnover, there's apparently no one at the company who can spare the time to talk to the press. all our attempts to contact the j b. s. headquarters in sao paulo, whether by email or in person, went nowhere. but we didn't give up. we paid an unannounced visit to the g. b a slaughterhouse and to coma. one of the dozens of sites the company maintains in the amazon seas our ends family have also delivered cattle. here
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after a few minutes, a manager appeared from german television and are making a film about the castle business. send me an email, make a former request and i'll see what i can do or the height to process and to weather here. no, it's just as load or has. where did the high school to learn about? it was the same story at the j. b, a side in motor, about 200 kilometers away. tier 2, someone would only talk to us if we received approval from company headquarters in south palo but the company continued to stonewall. basically there is no way to we didn't get any further through official channels, but we did receive some exclusive material from environmental activists who managed
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to film with hidden cameras a j, b, s, and other corporations in the region. pretending to be business men, they were able to secretly record sensitive conversations with j. b. s. executives . europeans are always talking about trees, trees, trees, germany, france, norway. they all say, oh, we have to save the rain forest in the amazon. but ultimately, all they care about is their own economic interests. after the manager had made his views on environmental issues clear to the supposed potential business part nurse became more specific and started talking about production, figures, and partnerships. i have tanner is all over brazil. we process 30000 cal hides a day, 90 percent of them are exported. 90 percent,
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where to the car industry issue, factories, furniture companies. we supply them all and we can adapt to demand. for example, we deliver tens of thousands of count highs per month to the automotive supply. earlier, you might know is it makes leather seats for the big brands. that's an explosive revelation. pointing to links between the legal deforestation and the international auto industry. we want to make sure it's all true and got in touch with one of the activists involved in the under cover operation. that's why did you go under cover cover sections for deforestation in the amazon cover? these see what the users are for speaking with them in that capacity hold or whatever. okay, and, and what to, to find out was the course of the supply chain between
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the solver houses and the numbers. all the questions that yours official us import data confirms the gps as leather products are indeed shipped from brazil to the us on a large scale usually by the port in houston, texas. in 2023 alone. the value of these goods was in the 10s of millions of dollars. almost all the animal hides end up with suppliers to the auto industry. around 2 thirds go to the lyric corporation which sells its leather car seats to automakers the world over including germany. but that doesn't mean they'll all be held accountable. the alleged environmental crimes in their supply chain. germany's supply chain act passed in 2023 has been described as to solicit by environmental organizations. but the german ministry for economic cooperation and
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development argues the law has created a new control body, holding corporations to account the desk. one is the federal office to economic affairs and export control has extensive rights and tons of controls can inspect relevant files and companies or complaints may be launched by n g a is trading in, so anyone affected and it's important, but complaints on file because this draws attention to where the problems lies. however, in its 1st year, the office failed to impose even a single penalty. in addition, those affected like indigenous people are not able to bring cases to court themselves. dusk is that instead of the kind of the law does not include civil liabilities coming to this means those affected have no opportunity to sue directly . lucas cox with the talk giving those affected the possibility to assert their rights and claim damages. it's a very powerful way to force companies to truly respect human rights, ok,
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and environmental protection. and that's with 55. what's more environmental organizations argue? business lobbyists have succeeded in persuading german legislators to make further concessions. companies don't need to check their entire supply chain. only their direct suppliers. this means for example, that if an automakers supplier confirms the origin of the leather is legitimate and the job is considered done. the rest of the supply chain remains in the dark. brussels is calling for stricter rules. dutch social democrats, lot of voltage has been fighting for years to pass and you wind directive that would make companies more accountable. and german law indeed says your 1st supplier, that's the one that you need to check. and then a and then after that, things are out of your control. what we tried to save the european law is if you could have known about a danger, if you could have known about an impact,
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then you need to do something about it. even if that impact, even if the harm is further down the supply chain. in 2023, the you pass the law and supply chains, prohibiting the sale of goods that can be directly linked to deforestation. a lot of alters once the new you supply chain lot to go even further. it now has the support of most e. u. member states, despite massive pressure from industry representatives. so in brussels, the, the lobbying works here in the hallways. i mean, people can, can come in and talk to the people involved in this little. so that's myself. that's my colleagues from other groups. what we need to be very careful of here is that we have a balance between the industry telling us how the industry works. in practice and those people who have much less of a voice. the reason we want this low is that the power imbalance has not been great for that last group. it's big companies, big multi nationals who have gotten an advantage from that. and they have put often
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profits over people. we had learned that a legal letter is being supplied to german automakers. but could we find out in which makes and models the material is installed? we headed to the deep south of the us to visit one of the many sites owned by automotive supplier leer. but the company was no more willing to share information, then it's presenting and business partners. all our attempts to talk to someone went nowhere. security guards ordered us to leave the premises back at the hotel, we got in touch with a well known supply chain expert. p 2 has complained that companies do not make their supply chains transparent. there is no requirement easily spends. so american companies do not share very much on their website like do you
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sometimes feel frustrated about all of this last year on this entire subject and the rest of the end of the semester makes you see all those companies playing a lot on the back of the plays with the complex and most companies are not chased back what it is they need to make the with lee are refusing to talk to us. we continue to follow our leads on our own. judging by the flags outside the building, bmw is one of the companies, major customers. the german luxury auto makers, the largest plants, is only 10 minutes away in spartanburg. we asked for an appointment. it turned out bmw, who was much more willing to talk to us than the other companies. the ceo of the plant agreed to talk to us about sustainability and supply chains. and it seems
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like it was the we are the largest card exporter here in the us, within 60 percent of the more than $400000.00 vehicles manufactured here every year or sent overseas. it goes without saying that sustainability is one of the core principles of our operations and actions of the ones that are under bmw made in the usa. 1500 luxury cars roll off the assembly line here every day, some destined for germany. most of these s u, v 's have leather upholstery. the expensive material is used on panels, the steering wheel and the seats. might this leather originate from areas in the amazon subject to illegal deforestation? we wanted to know from the ceo, what role risk to the environment play and the company supply chains. at this point, his responses became they the, the positive ends in the supply chains. transparency is key for us,
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and we are committed to this and have the corresponding transparency and focus on the buttons on the we always make them visit the friendly p. r team asked us to direct more specific questions to company headquarters in munich. however, despite the claims of full transparency, our interview request was turned down. we continued our research in a roadside restaurant coming across confidential market analyses and video materials. they proved that layer supplies genuine leather seats on a large scale to bmw plans all over the world. other leading german car manufacturers such as mercedes and volkswagen are also involved that we had found the final pieces in the supply chain puzzle. criminal activity is destroying the amazons. rain forest products from cattle kept there illegally end up on the world market. the path of dirty goods leads a long convoluted supply chains featuring animal processing and automotive supply
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companies, as well as top automakers. at the very end of the chain, consumers in germany who unwittingly bear some responsibility for what's happening in the amazon. we emailed several german luxury carmakers, confronting them with our research, and then waited for a response. we returned to germany to the last link and the supply chain. a luxury car dealership reached out. wagner has been voted bmw dealer of the year several times. he knows exactly what customers are looking for in their vehicles this out and i'll be 1st that the car is still a status symbol to move to customers want to show what they can afford process and for some it's very important that the leather feels a pleasant and that the material is natural, has the name on. this isn't a to, to come up at all is for reasons the principal has others absolutely want the vague an option. that's the good thing to be kind of hobbled. bmw has been offering
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completely beacon interiors fitted with so called beacon leather since 2023. but this is still more of a nice product. is it something for later? this is real leather field that text you don't have to click on that. we have an invitation to that they're not as cool. it's also available in both the colors site and problem, give them genuine whether that is unable leather and this is a more sustainable solution. so customer, guido richard has always been a fan of classic leather visits and for lead. and this is real leather, is also not the other leader feels wonderful, of course, and a high quality material, but possibly of dubious origin. this here obviously needs to be, but i've never thought about where the leather comes from. and if i assume that it was produced legally and didn't come from anywhere that's endangered, just based and if he had it and give me a call, if you've now found out that it does, then i would want someone to tell me that of course,
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i mean the to the service has been with us the exact, with the it's a wish managing director of each of vonda has not heard for the 1st time. yeah, we need to do some explaining some times and are then for us to find the right information ourselves quickly. but there is still a long way to go in terms of transparency, who took the investment sometimes, but enters a clear demand to be in w headquarters, which responded to our query. shortly afterwards. in recent years, we have continuously reduced our purchases of leather from south america. we have use the media coverage as an opportunity to enter into in depth bi lateral exchange with affected suppliers. by lateral exchange, environmental investigator, alexander from bismark, once companies to introduce the strict controls of their entire supply chain. this is only loveless. it's incredibly unfair that the people in the middle of the
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supply chain don't take responsibility. but i believe we really do have people on our side because people don't want to be complicit in these crimes and these, that community paid time in the meanwhile, illegal deforestation is continuing every day. and area of the size of $5000.00 soccer fields is lost in the amazon. the people whose lives are directly impacted can't stand up to this illegal activity on their own. they can only hope that 10000 kilometers away at the other end of the supply chain. people will start to take responsibility. on keeping the forest is only preserved around the village, someone beyond it, everything has been destroyed today, but we will not stop fighting for our forest, excuse me. so it's vital for our children's future. and also the future of the entire time. it is point that some bands on those floodlights, the
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the, i don't know my, my name is no mark is my and i'm a nurse. i fled from the war and cartoon 2nd. my name is sharia. hum done. i was in kent bill and we were attacked and my children were imagines. my name is hannah, how much do i fled after having lost my 2 children and one of my legs? just 3 of 10000000 in volts on sit on global us. 30 minutes on the w. r to speak, freedom and freedom of expression came to an end. in 1933,
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