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JBS puts a figure on area it monitors for deforestation

01/04/2014

Fernando Bellese, sustainability manager at Brazilian meatpacker and tannery group JBS Couros, has revealed that the group monitors 870 thousand square kilometres “to make sure that none of our products are coming from invasion of indigenous areas, deforestation or rural conflicts".

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