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as in southern california, the news this our stay tuned for documentary coming up next. i'm sorry, richardson in berlin. thank you so much for joining us. the we are all set. we are watching close to the to bring you the story behind the new, the will on about. com, biased information for free might say, do 10 in 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. the forest
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is only preserved around the village. beyond that, everything has been destroyed. must feel like businesses are driving whole tribes out of the forest and they live in there is no rule of law. only the law of the jungle. those guys are very connected. they can press any on a 2nd arm 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 entered our investigation. overtime we started to suspect something shocking to products linked to illegal deforestation in the amazon end up in german luxury cars the every year in september unit coast, the international motor showed germany one of the largest mobility trades fairs in the world. this is where our research ended the industries involvement in international environmental crimes. in 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 buzz word. but in fact, most of the visitors here weren't that interested in the distribution care about sustainability. so if you have an event,
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not really just the important resources have to come from somewhere and what is sustainability anyway. busy 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 sobering conclusion, that international study that we are looking at the issue and there's going to be more of a priority. yes. design, 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 us. 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 the german american environmental activist has an interesting background. he's a former us marine who became an undercover investigator, is looking into a legal 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 the people and i soon find out that it often comes from our countries. then i'm calling today. von, bismarck is director of the environmental investigation agency, an international organization fighting climate and environmental crime. using state of the art technology via this team are dedicated to exposing the operations perpetrating these offenses. the i says huge prophets are being made not only with wood golden diamonds, but above all, with the legal grazing land for cattle. in other words, with products such as meat,
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milk, and leather, which end up on the international market, the look items. and it's important to understand that large scale criminal activity in the amazon is causing us to lose the forest. the priority and the tragedy is that we, people who don't want to be involved in our insight bank ruling these crimes because in the scale to see the claim in edited finance. here, 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, account hard, 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 as are putting
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themselves in danger, or we can towers that allows to send with a 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 low cost defending the forest. it's light of when glowed fairly steve the these are the chaperone on helps the struggle on the ground on is led by indigenous peoples were defending their forest and their future and you have, i don't get it to come by typing despite the risks we continued our journey heading to ground 0 of the problem, brazil from 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 on 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 being investigated for the tip of 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 interviews 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. and the jungle in 2022 don't 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 that as it's just
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been yours. just to meet there. do you have any advice? what so we shouldn't be careful about one the other. yeah. there's always someone listening. so the way of that, isabel put us in touch with the colleague who comes from the region and knows his way around to we then made our way to the amazon a massive area that's almost twice the size of the e. u. at the airport at the regional capital monro box, we met your e isabel is coming from here, we plan to drive to a p, 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 pete at a y is set to up,
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become particularly dramatic. and recent years, we wanted to find out who's behind is 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 3 we, we not see so much for rating for us as we pause when, when we were a kids, you know, the biome here changes a lot. we're going to see a lot of get the rangers farms, certain kinds of new mines. so that 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. duty found
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a guide willing to take us up the single river to a p today. what is that is all about which one? with the red roof right there of the indigenous product and not people of pee 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 would be 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 trouts. our
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guide was forced to navigate carefully to avoid getting stuck. in the 15 minutes, we're gonna be the beginning of the up in our on the right side. we finally reached our destination after 8 hours until the 1970s. the prerogative were completely isolated. today they live in a protected area as large as bizarre lawn region in germany. economic exploitation is prohibited, and the proc 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 leading neighboring villages after they had been threatened by armed men, but they weren't safe here either. send me. yeah. so we have been getting threats
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for a long time, but it's getting worse. doesn't she said these days didn't terminations, are constant warming thing on their classes in the forest have become frequent come was and using those. now. as soon as we are hunters seems to customize who we go into the woods and hunts menu dear. and why am i for the cause of this and see if i saw his name and it's become more difficult to to, the foreigner is coming to our lines. tedious, come was transferred to another cause and fader. and so here we must travel longer and longer distances to hunt underneath the already invited us to accompany the hunters into the jungle. he said they could best explain what worsening deforestation means for the power. i cannot people yeah, but but, but in the past we always had enough. uh,
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but we only take as much of the forest as we need to, to uh, what i mean since the white people have been taking the forest away from us. we sometimes most travel for days notice uh 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. or she's considered incorruptible. 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 fuel and we need to breeds. not only for us here in the forest, but also for white people. for the whole world
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to win a toe is ready to fight for the forest. although the per rock cannot have the law on their side, the jungles destruction remains on checked lakes. his finals made by white people don't seem to be working. i wonder if the people who buy cattle from here even think about what they are doing. they are 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 kids. so what are these sounds down to you to put up the story? but who are these people destroying the forest to make way for their herds of cattle? are they working for 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 rick jacobson had worked his way through gigantic amounts of data, including documents from local authorities, financial databases and aerial photographs. he confirmed with the product and now have long set. a legal profit tiers are destroying the local forest at a rapid pace. you can see up to 3 y as the largest area and deforestation the entire design, amazon. and you may have noticed an acceleration just in the last yours exactly. as i said in this area here, skyrocketing of deforestation, and 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, or 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 solely for a 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 enter national 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 the visit link out on the street for
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more than 2 seconds. 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 we've been collecting and using very large datasets of count transport permits which has been vital and essential to mixing together parts of the supply chains. we've also connected 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 r n and 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 meet up with you or you 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 the amazon. anything connects to the guy with the footage also shows an influential lawyer who works with 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 baltimore's 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 friends 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 bob. in them, he repeatedly came across a familiar name, caesar and we got in touch with the investigators and motor of off the regional capital. prosecutor ego spend all the agreed to talk to us. he said, the scale of the problem is fast enough heat at a while alone, the territory of the product cannot investigators have identified some 80 suspects and more than 60000 suspected illegal capital for someone somebody was 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 we just have to sell. the prosecutor set former presidential here both scenario head down right?
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boycotted the investigation during his time and office the far right politician had promoted the rain forests commercial exploitation. now under left this the president lou that the silver, the government has changed to attack the e u. 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 the owner as soon move up the social letter. i mean, it doesn't take much, they don't have to buy the land and they just occupier and multiply their wealth quickly. this is also thought this was the plan to get closer and closer to political power surplus. you don't want to put the police in the way. it is some kind of organized crime. you know, it's one of those crimes 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 csr and 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 tracks. the farmer's land is in the middle of an especially dangerous part of the rain forest, an area that had seen the 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 the man 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 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, refuse to talk to us on camera, but he was willing to give us his cellphone number. 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 previous governments wanted us to
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make a profit here in the rain forest. no one rumbled 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. that large parts of the rain for us are now protected, is in comprehensible to many here. and complicates the work of public prosecutor ego or spend all the most part names and not my going. there's a long history of colonization and conquest in the amazon and phone. our democracy is still young and attitudes towards land occupation are still the same as they've always been. to many people think this is land that anyone can just take 20 land grabs in the rain forest for personal profit. if the prosecutor's 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. we drove to a local trans shipment point for cattle transport and called caesar and we wanted to ask him who buys? he's a legal candle. oh sarah, good afternoon mister says architect everything. okay with you. i'm fine. you're doing well. what's this about me also said 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. well for years. when he mentions one of his clients, we can't believe what we're hearing. it's a leading animal processing enterprise. okay, so, so thank you very much, mrs. arkansas and okay, goodbye. yeah, to meet his dad. he was selling cattle regularly to death. and after the lawsuit
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his name was under environment. so give us good not by the cattle anymore. okay. so i'd say be as, as really enforcing the in bars, his name is under involved. well, but not from his brother. probably. charles is still about selling cattle to james to the b s. and in we know that the fact that farmers know basically one big farm. so basically the legal team seems to continue, and cbs might still buy capital from, from this family. 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 have been recently kind of kept illegally in the protected area of a peter a while 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, can food and tail heights all over the world. according to its own statements, the company has a slaughter capacity of around $30000.00 cattle per day in brazil alone. that's more than $10000000.00 cattle per year head spinning numbers, 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 into coma. one of the dozens of sites the company maintains, in the amazon of the 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 e mail, make a former request, and i'll see what i can do. or the heights process since the 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. here to someone would only talk to us if we received approval from company headquarters and sell 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 to film
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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 partners, he became more specific and started talking about production, figures, and partnerships. i have tanner is all over brazil, reprocess 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 high's 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 undercover operation. that's why did you go under cover cover sections for deforestation in the amazon or see what the users are for speaking with them in that capacity hold for. oh, okay. and what to, to find out to the last, the course of the supply chain or between the solver houses and the numbers or the
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searchers official us import data confirms the gps has leather products are indeed shipped from brazil to the us on a large scale. usually via 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 lear 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 development argues the law has
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created a new control body, holding corporations to account the desk windows at a federal office to economic affairs and export control has extensive rights in terms of controls, you can inspect relevant files and companies or complaints may be launched by n g a is trade union, so anyone affected and it's important but complaints on file because this draws attention to where the problems lies in special. 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 them, a kind of the law does not include civil liability. at one time, this means those affected have no opportunity to sue directly and lucas cache of the talk getting those effected the possibility to assert their rights and claim damages is a very powerful way to force companies to truly respect human rights. ok,
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and environmental protection. and that's what 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 auto makers 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 all tests has been fighting for years to pass, and you wind directive that would make companies more accountable. the german low 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's impact, even if the harm is further down the supply chain. in 2023, the you pass the law on 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 flow 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 illegal leather 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 layer. but the company was no more willing to share information, then it's presenting and business partners. all our attempts to talk to someone with 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 nothing. so american companies do not share very much on their website to what's
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happening. like, do you 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 off the back of the plays with complex. and most companies are not traced back the entire so much but it is easy to make the with lee or refusing to talk to us. we continue to follow our leads on our own. judging by the flags outside the building, b, m. w is one of the companies, major customers, the german luxury automakers, the largest plants is only 10 minutes away in spartanburg. we asked for an appointment. it turned out, bmw 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. isn't that
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because 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. that goes with high saying that sustainability is one of the core principles of our operations and actions of the ones that are funded. 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 in the company supply chains. at this point, his responses became vague. the possible events and the supply chains. transparency
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is key for others. and we're committed to this and have the corresponding transparency and focus on the buttons on the you always make them 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 plants all over the world. other leading german car manufacturers such as mercedes and volkswagen are also involved with found the final pieces in the supply chain puzzle. criminal activity is destroying the amazons, rain forest products from cattle cap. they're illegally end up on the world market . the path of dirty goods leads to long convoluted supply chains featuring animal
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processing and automotive supply 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 car makers confronting them with our research and then waited for a response. we return to germany to the last link and the supply chain. a luxury car dealership we shot wagner has been voted bmw dealer of the year several times. he knows exactly what customers are looking for and their vehicles to this how to resolve this start the car is still a status symbol to move to the customers. want to show what they can afford process for some it's very important that the leather feels unpleasant and that the material is natural. has the name on. this isn't a to because i'm not at all is for reasons the principal has others absolutely want the vague, an option. just a good thing to be kind of west bmw has been offering completely vague and
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interiors fitted with so called beacon leather since 2023. but this is still more of a nice product as it comes before, this is real leather field that text you have to click on that we have the invitation letter and it's also available in both the colors site and problem, give them genuine. whether that is unable leather entailed, and this is a more sustainable solution here. so customer, guido richard has always been a fan of classic leather visits. and felicia, and this is all real leather, is also not the leather leader. feels wonderful, of course, and 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 you 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 me,
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that through the service has been with us the exact, with the it's a wish managing director of each on voc that has not heard for the 1st time. yeah. we need to do some explaining sometimes 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. as long as we took the investment attendance but enters a clear demand to bmw of 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 strict controls of their entire supply chain. this is only loveless. it's incredibly unfair that people in the middle of the supply chain
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don't take responsibility of a name. but i believe we really do have people on our side because people don't want to be complicit in these crimes. these actually mean that the pay type of name, 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 15, the 1st is only preserved around the village, someone beyond it, everything has been destroyed today, but we will not stop fighting for our forest. 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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