Revealed: new evidence links Brazil meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation

Forest fires in Brazil — often linked to land clearance for beef cattle farming — have provoked global concern. Picture: Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace

Reporting team: André Campos, Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal, Dom Phillips and Piero Locatelli

New evidence appears to connect JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, to cattle supplied from a farm in the Brazilian Amazon which is under sanction for illegal deforestation.