Leather Has No Direct Deforestation Link, but Will Need to Work Hard on Traceability Systems

Leather and deforestation
Cattle Grazing In the past, cattle pasture mostly expanded into the savannahs or grasslands of southern Brazil, with low deforestation rates; however,the spread of cattle grazing northward drove large-scale deforestation. Factors favouring this development include (i) the extensive nature and (ii) low productivity of tropical grazing beef production. Freddie Addery / Unsplash