Shoe companies like Adidas, Reebok, Nike, Timberland and even Clarks are sourcing a significant proportion of their leather from Amazon cattle ranches

What you can do

Write to the CEOs of leading shoe companies and explain to them that their dependence on Amazon leather is supporting forest destruction and global climate change.

SHOOT: Might be good to check if the shoes you're wearing were made from cows living on land that was once teeming with life in the Amazon. If you knew that, would you wear them? Look at the picture below - it looks like a desert. It was once forested.

clipped from www.greenpeace.org.uk Boots and training shoes are not the first things that spring to mind when you think about the causes of rainforest destruction and climate change. But just because the connection isn't obvious doesn't mean it isn't real - as our researchers have been busy proving in a new report released today. Slaughtering the Amazon tracks beef and leather products on their journey from farms involved in illegal deforestation and in some cases slavery, via giant processing facilities to the supply chains of some of our best known global brands. Shoe companies like Adidas, Reebok, Nike, Timberland and even Clarks are sourcing a significant proportion of their leather from the Amazon - and it's big business. But it's not only shoes. Products as diverse as handbags and ready meals, and companies as big as Tesco, BMW, IKEA and Kraft also rely on Amazon leather and beef. Practically all of us will have some by-product of Amazon destruction in our homes somewhere, whether we like it or not.