(Reuters) - A supplier to brands including Nestle, Kellogg's and Colgate has been farming palm oil on deforested land in one of the best-preserved areas of Peru's Amazon rainforest, an environmental group said in an investigative report released on Wednesday.
Peru-based supplier Ocho Sur and related companies deforested more than 130 square kilometers (50 square miles) in Peru's Ucayali region, with most of the destruction occurring since 2012, the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said in the report. That is an area more than twice the size of Manhattan.
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