Thank you action to Nike for establishing a policy to protect the Amazon and the climate

Following the release of the Greenpeace report, “Slaughtering the Amazon,” which showed that demand for shoe leather plays an integral role in the deforestation of the Amazon by cattle ranchers in Brazil, Nike contacted Greenpeace and worked with us to establish a new leather sourcing policy. Nike has announced new standards that will keep leather made from Amazon destruction out of its shoes, and will adhere to those standards until there can be guarantees that none of the leather and other cattle products in Brazil are coming from deforested Amazon land.

The snow-covered lands and icy waters of these polar regions are, for many people, the purest examples of true wilderness left on this planet. While the Arctic has been home to indigenous peoples for a millennium, Antarctica has only played host to visiting explorers and scientists. Both polar oceans are, however, home to distinctive wildlife that has adapted to the extreme environmental conditions, such as the Arctic's polar bears and the Antarctic's penguins. Polar waters provide rich feeding grounds that sustain large populations of seabirds and marine mammals, including the majority of the world's great whales.