According to an investigation by Global Witness, a single JBS supplier destroyed more than 1,200 hectares of jaguar habitat over 10 years in a protected area in Brazil called APA Meandros do Araguaia. The Global Witness report states that the farm fined was an indirect supplier of cattle to JBS, the world's largest meat processing company, between 2019 and 2022. According to the organisation, this farm transported cattle to another unit of the group, which then sold to the company's direct suppliers on at least two occasions.

JBS reached an agreement with the Mato Grosso State Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPMT) after polluting a watercourse in Lucas do Rio Verde by discharging untreated effluent from its cattle feedlot. According to the MPMT, the company was also fined by the State Secretariat for the Environment for operating without an environmental license and for discharging effluents without a permit to use water resources. As a result of the pollution, JBS will be required to pay R$200,000 (around US$ 35,000 at that time).

Greenpeace International has challenged JBS’s attempt to list on the New York Stock Exchange and relocate its corporate headquarters to the Netherlands, citing the company’s links to corruption, deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and human rights violations. The organization’s legal team sent a letter to a Dutch notary firm, with a copy forwarded to Dutch regulatory authorities.