Images of elegantly dressed women walking on the runway are followed by footage of a bulldozer destroying a forest. This is how a video byBritish NGO Earthsight begins, before going on to accuse apparel giants Zara and H&M of being "linked" to large-scale illegal deforestation in Brazil.
In the report"Fashion Crimes: European Retail Giants Linked to Dirty Brazilian Cotton," the environmentalist organization said that both companies bear responsibility for illegal deforestation, land grabbing, and related violence in the South American country.
