Coles and Woolworths, it’s time to be deforestation-free.

Australia is a global deforestation hotspot. Every day, deforestation rips through the continent. Unique forests and bushland across Queensland are bulldozed to make way for beef pastures. Tall trees in Lutruwita / Tasmania and New South Wales are logged for timber and pulp. Deforestation destroys homes for rare wildlife and smothers the Great Barrier Reef with sediment and pollution.

Every day, supermarkets are exposed to this deforestation: from some of the beef mince they sell to some of the timber pallets their groceries arrive on.

But right now, it seems Australia’s major supermarkets Coles and Woolworths aren’t properly checking ...

Australia is a global deforestation hotspot. Every day, deforestation rips through the continent. Unique forests and bushland across Queensland are bulldozed to make way for beef pastures. Tall trees in Lutruwita / Tasmania and New South Wales are logged for timber and pulp. Deforestation destroys homes for rare wildlife and smothers the Great Barrier Reef with sediment and pollution.

Every day, supermarkets are exposed to this deforestation: from some of the beef mince they sell to some of the timber pallets their groceries arrive on.

But right now, it seems Australia’s major supermarkets Coles and Woolworths aren’t properly checking if the products on their shelves come from forest destruction. They are keeping shoppers in the dark. Until they clean up their act, Coles and Woolworths are complicit in Australia’s deforestation crisis.

Coles and Woolies can lead the way to end Australia’s deforestation crisis. They must take groceries made from deforestation off their shelves and only source deforestation-free products. The two major supermarkets can help iconic Aussie animals like koalas and quolls escape extinction.

None of us should have to worry that any of our groceries are coming from the destruction of Australia’s forests and bushland. It’s time for Coles and Woolworths to go deforestation-free. Will you write to the CEOs of Australia’s two major supermarkets to call on them to deal with their deforestation problem?

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Dear Ms Bardwell and Ms Weckert,

I am emailing you as CEOs of Coles and Woolworths to ask that your companies go deforestation-free.

I am concerned about Australia’s deforestation crisis, and its impacts on Australia’s unique forests and bushland.

Every day, Coles and Woolworths are exposed to deforestation risk–from beef mince you sell to timber pallets your products arrive on.

Right now, it seems your supermarkets are not checking if there is forest destruction on the shelves. This isn’t good enough: as Australia’s biggest supermarkets’ CEOs, your customers expect that the products they buy won't be driving deforestation.

Coles and Woolworths are key to ending Australia’s deforestation crisis.

Please act urgently to make best practice, science-based commitments to eliminate deforestation and conversion of natural ecosystems from your supply chains. Then take real, publicly visible steps to actually implement them.

It’s time to take groceries made from the destruction of Australia’s forests and bushland off your shelves.

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