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Cattle and Soy For Livestock Are Destroying Rainforests


Cattle and Soy For Livestock Are Destroying Rainforests

The global demand for meat is the primary cause of Amazon and global rainforest destruction driven by clearing land for cattle pasture and ...

Growing soy on cattle pasture can eliminate Amazon deforestation ...

Soy cultivation and cattle ranching are two of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. But instead of clearing more forest ...

Unsustainable cattle ranching | WWF - Panda.org

2005). These fires make way for cattle-ranching, the most important cause of direct conversion of rainforests (Jan Maarten Dros, 2004). Soy developers ...

The link between cattle-ranching, soy and deforestation | WWF

Cattle-ranching is also popular because of the low production costs and land-tenure policies that promote forest clearance rather than sustainable forest ...

Drivers of Deforestation - Our World in Data

The expansion of pasture for beef production, croplands for soy and palm oil, and, increasingly, the conversion of primary forest to tree plantations for paper ...

What are the biggest drivers of tropical deforestation?

Demand for soy is closely connected to demand for beef and other animal proteins. Between 70% and 75% of all soy becomes livestock feed—for chickens, pigs ...

Demand for meat is destroying the Amazon. Smarter choices at the ...

It is dominated by industrial-sized soy plantations where the protein-rich legume is being grown for conversion to animal feed for livestock ...

How Americans' love of beef is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest

... soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is ...

Soy and cattle team up to drive deforestation in South America: Study

Soybean farms are typically planted in old cattle pastures, and as soy encroaches, pasture is forced into new frontiers, driving deforestation ...

How Cattle Ranching in Brazil Could Lead to the End of the Amazon

Scientists worry the Amazon may reach a “tipping point” of deforestation where, once passed, the rainforest could dry out and turn into a ...

Beef production drives deforestation five times more than any other ...

... beef and soy, the latter being used for animal feed. The EU, as ... destruction of 8.2 million hectares of forests between 2001 and 2015.

Soy and Deforestation: Everything You Need to Know

According to a study published by Science Advances, the main driver of deforestation is, in fact, the expansion of pasture for cows raised for ...

10 Years Ago the Amazon Was Being Bulldozed for Soy - Greenpeace

A decade ago, the Brazilian Amazon was in a full-blown soy crisis. From 2004 to 2005, the rainforest was being destroyed at the second highest rate ever ...

How Animal Agriculture Is Accelerating Global Deforestation

Beef production is responsible for at least 41% of deforestation globally, mostly in the Amazon rainforest region of Brazil and other countries ...

'Deforestation-free' soya farms still tearing down the Amazon | TBIJ

In Mato Grosso state, which stretches over the southern part of the Amazon and grows more soya than anywhere else in Brazil, 1,180 sq km of ...

Animal Agriculture Is Destroying Tropical Forests

One of the main crops grown in the rainforest is soybeans used specifically for animal feed. Tropical deforestation and forest clearing have ...

Revealed: rampant deforestation of Amazon driven by global greed ...

Growing international demand for beef has become a key driver in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, with new figures seen by our team ...

Cattle are not the drivers of rainforest destruction. Here's why.

Much of the tension behind deforestation in the Amazon and livestock production spurs from inconsistent policymaking and patchwork enforcement ...

Industrialized meat production – rainforest on our plates

Soy plantations that grow livestock feed cover vast areas of South America, while cattle pastures are eating their way deeper into the rainforests.

Cattle Supply Chains and Deforestation of the Amazon - CSIS

Ryan C. Berg testified before the Senate Finance Committee about the cattle industry's relationship to deforestation in the Amazon and how ...