The Deforestation Scorecard
Discover the beef industry’s impact on Australian forests & wildlife
Beef Industry Ratings
Australia is a global deforestation hotspot, driven primarily by the beef industry. About every two minutes, a large football field-sized area of forest and bushland is bulldozed, putting Australia alongside places like the Amazon, Congo and Borneo on the scale of destruction.
Greenpeace has assessed how ten of Australia’s largest beef buyers stack up against a conversion and deforestation-free target by 2025.
* All of the statements above are based on publicly available information and responses to Greenpeace's direct investigations.
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Deforestation is killing tens of millions of native animals, pushing threatened species like the koala to the brink of extinction. It's also fuelling climate change, polluting rivers and damaging the Great Barrier Reef.
Australia’s largest beef buyers have the ability to fix this problem by ensuring their supply chains are conversion and deforestation-free by 2025.
With just one email, you can tell all these corporations to clean up their act NOW.
*31 December 2020 is the baseline after which supply chain must be free from deforestation. This is different to the implementation deadline which should be 2025.
Read the Report
In this report we assess how the commitments and implementation efforts of ten of Australia’s largest beef buyers stack up against a conversion and deforestation-free target by 2025. Each company was scored out of 10, with 5 points each for the strength of the commitment and the strength of the implementation efforts.
All of the companies assessed failed, with none scoring above 50%. These results seriously call into question the environmental performance of these companies.
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Every single second a native animal is brutally killed by bulldozers. But there is hope.
The Australian Government is in a once-in-a-generation process of overhauling our national environmental law. Together we can make sure the new law halts nature destruction and ends the extinction crisis.
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