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Illegal Leather: How the Car Industry Is Threatening the Rainforest
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Illegal Leather: How the Car Industry Is Threatening the Rainforest

42 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Wenatoa Parakanã stands outside her cabin in the Amazonas region of Apyterewa, describing how strangers have been chopping down the forest around her village to make way for cattle pasture. Over twenty years, an area of rainforest nearly the size of Germany has been cleared in the region, much of it illegally, and researchers warn the Amazon may already be past the point of recovery. DW's investigative team traces the supply chain behind this destruction: cattle raised on illegally cleared land, hides sold through middlemen, and leather processed by Brazil's tannery industry, which exports over a billion Euros of product annually. Secretly filmed footage from abattoirs, interviews with insiders, and digital tracing techniques follow the trail from the rainforest to German car dealerships, where BMW and Mercedes models are sold with leather interiors sourced from this chain. The film builds its case like a piece of investigative reporting, following named sources and physical evidence rather than relying on assertion, and lands its argument in showrooms far from the fires it starts with.