DEFORESTATION IS KILLING HELPLESS ANIMALS IN BRAZIL’S CERRADO FOREST. Giant anteaters, one of only four living anteater species left, have been disappearing while profit-driven companies slash and burn the terrain that these precious creatures call home. You can fight the destruction of one of Earth’s most vulnerable, unique ecosystems -- and do so from within the borders of your own state! Bunge, a titan commodity trader, exports colossal amounts of soy every year from Brazil. Its suppliers routinely VIOLATE laws and human rights alike, chopping down ancient trees, displacing local communities, and replacing once beautiful, biodiverse landscapes with flat, massive industrial plantations. But as a major asset owner, YOUR Massachusetts State Comptroller William McNamara wields significant influence over Bunge and their destructive deforestation. Will you sign on and demand your MA State Comptroller take action to end Bunge’s horrific practices? There’s not a moment to lose. Right now, money-hungry corporations like Bunge are throwing Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian small-scale farmers who call the Cerrado home off their land. And those companies are doing the same thing to animals on the BRINK OF EXTINCTION. Without swift action, the land carefully managed by Indigenous communities will be deforested and plowed over by a giant American corporation. Havoc wreaked in the Cerrado by companies like Bunge doesn’t end at violence against Indigenous communities, endangering rare animals, and decimating biodiversity hotspots -- as if those transgressions weren’t enough. Slashing trees also releases enormous amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, accelerating the climate crisis. Can I count on you to urge your Massachusetts State Comptroller to flex their financial power over Bunge protect forests like the Cerrado from destruction? Standing with you,
Jeff Conant,
Senior international forests program manager,
Friends of the Earth | 
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