(28 May 2025)
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 28 May 2025
1. The book “How to Save the Amazon” by British journalist Dom Phillips with contributors at a bookstore
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 28 May 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Laura Gasparian, owner of “Argumento” bookstore:
“He defended the Amazon, something a lot of people are not doing. And suffered because he was against everything bad that is happening there. A hero.”
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 28 May 2025
3. Various of the book “How to Save the Amazon” by British journalist Dom Phillips with contributors at a bookstore
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Bryncrug, Wales – 28 May 2025
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Watts, environmental writer for The Guardian:
“A group of his friends, including me, decided that we would finish his book. This was to honor our friend and also to make a statement of solidarity for journalists that even if you kill a reporter you cannot silence the story.”
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ARCHIVE: São Paulo, Brazil – 23 June 2022
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5. Banner with picture of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips on the floor surrounded by candles during demonstration
6. Indigenous people singing around the banner with candles
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Bryncrug, Wales – 28 May 2025
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Watts, environmental writer for The Guardian:
“You can see from Dom’s writing that he was really passionate about Brazil, about the Amazon, about indigenous people who live in the Amazon. In the form of the book that message gets out. In a way it’s as if he and Bruno are still working for the causes that they believed in.”
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ARCHIVE: Recife, Brazil – 24 June 2022
8. Various of Xukuru Indigenous group dancing and singing around Bruno Pereira’ s coffin, with his framed picture on top, during his funeral
STORYLINE:
After British journalist Dom Phillips was shot and killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world’s largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish the project. Three years later, their task is complete.
“How to Save the Amazon,” published Tuesday in Brazil and the U.K ahead of its U.S. release, was pieced together by fellow journalists who immersed themselves in Phillips’ notes, outlines and the handful of chapters he’d already written.
The resulting book, scheduled to be published in the U.S. on June 10, pairs Phillips’ own writing with others’ contributions in a powerful examination of the cause for which he gave his life.
In addition to the core group who led the work on finishing the book, other colleagues and friends helped to edit chapters, including The Associated Press journalists Fabiano Maisonnave and David Biller.
Phillips, who had been a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper, was taking one of the final reporting trips planned for his book when he was gunned down by fishermen on June 5, 2022, in western Amazon’s Javari Valley.
Also killed was Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on Indigenous tribes who had made enemies in the region for defending the local communities from intruding fishermen, poachers and illegal gold miners.
Their deaths made headlines around the world. Nine people have been indicted in the killings.
With the blessing of Phillips’ widow, Alessandra Sampaio, a group of five friends agreed to carry the project forward.
AP Video shot by Lucas Dumphreys and Tatiana Pollastri
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