An investigation by Unearthed, Greenpeace UK’s investigative journalism arm, revealed that JBS purchased cattle more than 100 times from a ranch that was fined nearly £2 million for illegally destroying unique and vulnerable areas of the Pantanal. According to an analysis by AidEnvironment, Fazenda Querência deforested a total of 50 square kilometers of native vegetation between 2019 and 2023—an area equivalent to half the size of Paris. As revealed by the investigation, between 2018 and 2023, JBS’s own transparency platform recorded 112 cattle purchases made by its two meatpacking plants in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), directly from the ranch.