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    Rome received an unprecedented visit this week that has triggered an unexpected butterfly effect across the Atlantic. Two Ayoreo Indigenous leaders traveled from the Gran Chaco โ€” their forest, and the secondโ€‘largest in South America โ€” to denounce before the Italian government, Parliament, and the Vatican that it is being illegally cleared with bulldozers. And that their people, who live inside this Paraguayan forest, are being displaced. All for a reason they find utterly absurd: producing leath
     

Rome visit by Indigenous leaders ignites a storm in the leather industry

29 April 2026 at 15:50

Rome received an unprecedented visit this week that has triggered an unexpected butterfly effect across the Atlantic. Two Ayoreo Indigenous leaders traveled from the Gran Chaco โ€” their forest, and the secondโ€‘largest in South America โ€” to denounce before the Italian government, Parliament, and the Vatican that it is being illegally cleared with bulldozers. And that their people, who live inside this Paraguayan forest, are being displaced. All for a reason they find utterly absurd: producing leather for luxury car brands.

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Members of the Ayoreo Indigenous community in Paraguay, in September 2014.Animal hides produced in Santa Elisa (Paraguay).Deforestation in the Paraguayan Chaco.

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Ayoreo Indigenous leaders in Rome, April 24.
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