News Headline
Chocolate industry drives rainforest disaster in Ivory Coast
Source
Guardian (UK)
Publication Date
2017-09-13
The world’s chocolate industry is driving deforestation on a devastating scale in West Africa, the Guardian can reveal. Cocoa traders who sell to Mars, Nestlé, Mondelez and other big brands buy beans grown illegally inside protected areas in the Ivory Coast, where rainforest cover has been reduced by more than 80% since 1960.