Rainforest instead of soy desert: How mate helps the people of Paraguay | WWF Germany

Rainforest instead of soy desert: How mate helps the people of Paraguay | WWF Germany

Our meat consumption is destroying their homeland. Many farmers in Paraguay are losing their land to the soybean industry. But with our mate project we can now ...

Our meat consumption is destroying their homeland. Many farmers in Paraguay are losing their land to the soy industry. But with our Mate project we can now give people in the countryside a future and at the same time create new forests.

The Atlantic rainforest was once considered the most biodiverse forest on earth. But in the last few decades it has increasingly had to give way to agriculture. The reason: Our hunger for #meat and #milk. Soy is now grown by the hectare where there was once a forest. That ends up mainly in feed troughs, also here in Germany.

With the Mate project we want to protect farmers in Paraguay from having to sell their land to the soy industry and at the same time create new forest. You can find out how it all works in the video.

Director, camera, editor: Julia Thiemann / WWF Germany

Camera assistant: Sonja Ritter / WWF Germany
Technical management: Kerstin Weber / WWF Germany
Speaker: Anne Thoma, Julia Thiemann / WWF Germany
Animations: Christopher Kuss / WWF Germany
Drone images: Lucas Mongoles / WWF Paraguay
Other shots: Jaguar: Shutterstock, Macaws and Monkey: Days Edge Production /
WWF US, capybaras: Gary Strieker / WWF US, deforestation: Juan Pratginestos / WWF

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