Tell Cargill: Stop Deforestation in the Amazon

 21-year-old Beka Saw Munduruku, an indigenous advocate, traveled 4,000 miles to hand-deliver a letter urging the Cargill-MacMillan family to stop their company's deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado grassland.

The family refused to meet with her.

Munduruku went to such great lengths to deliver her message because Cargill is chopping down forests at an alarming and unsustainable rate.

"Last year the forests and savannas of the Cerrado were destroyed at a rate of 8,000 acres a day," Munduruku wrote in her letter to the families. 

"This is an area of destruction the size of your hometown of Minneapolis every five days," she added.

Here's how Stand.earth campaign director Mathew Jacobson put it: "Rhe Cargill-MacMillan family has demonstrated that they are unconcerned with the impacts of the company's actions on those victimized by them. And they are dismissive of all attempts to bring it to their attention."

While we wish the family had taken the time to meet with Munduruku and listen to her concerns, there's still time for them to do the right thing by heeding her call.

Sign the petition urging Cargill to stop deforestation in the Amazon.