Nathalie Kelley Instagram – Earlier this year we made a film with the indigenous Brazilian environmental activist @txaisurui and the street artivist @mundano_sp where we put a 150 metre artwork of the @tescofood logo into a deforested area of the Amazon. We wanted highlight the relationship between Tesco and the multi-billion dollar meat company #JBS that has been linked to human rights abuses and an estimated 1.5 million hectares of deforestation. Tesco has pledged to be deforestation-free but while we were out there we saw firsthand how supposedly protected indigenous territory in the forest is being destroyed for for meat production linked to JBS. Defending indigenous territory is one of the most effective ways to protect the Amazon for our futures and the futures of our children. These forests are home to one in ten species on Earth. Medicines for Parkinson’s and leukaemia come from these forests. The trees here hold up to 140 billion tons of carbon, which helps keeps the planet cool. And yet scientists have warned that the Amazon may be on the brink of collapse. To highlight the complicity of companies like Tesco in this destruction Mundano turned from street artist to forest artist – designing a huge piece of artwork of the Tesco and JBS logos. Installing it on the ground was incredibly difficult. The indigenous community who helped us on the ground with the installation face regular attacks and incursions into their forest by farmers who burn the trees to turn into arable land. We tried to install the artwork on a number of occasions within Txai’s territory, but Txai and her community were chased off their own land by ranchers. Txai and her mother @neidinha_defensora_da_floresta and their organisation @kanindebrazil are fighting every day to protect these forests for all of us. Help them by telling @tescofood it’s time to stop doing business with #JBS Heydon Prowse | Director Gabriel Uchida | Producer Sophie Outhwaite | Production Manager Giulia Costa | Assistant Producer Joe Wade – Writer Don’t Panic – Creative Agency Flying Shoe Films – Production company Camera – Micael Hocherman Camera – João Pedro Orban Sound/camera/drone – Joao Faissal Fixer – Marcelo Araújo