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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Activists decry French retailer over Amazon deforestation

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Environmental groups and representatives of Brazil's Indigenous community are protesting Thursday outside the main Paris courthouse, urging a quick trial for a French supermarket chain accused of selling beef linked to deforestation and land grabs in the Amazon rainforest.

Several leading Indigenous representatives are in Paris and Brussels this month to denounce international threats to their territories and attract public attention to cattle farming practices in the Amazon.

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