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How to Save the Amazon

A journalist's deadly quest for answers

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 'Ultimately as inspiring and devastating as the Amazon itself' The Guardian

'Bold, pacy, bursting with optimism and filled with vivid descriptions, this is the work of an indomitable soul' - Guy Shrubsole

A brilliantly colourful work of reportage ... a haunting and truly important read' - The Telegraph

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On 5 June 2022, award-winning journalist Dom Phillips was working on this book, alongside the indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, when they were both shot. They are believed to have been assassinated by one of the criminal networks whose ecological exploitation they were working to expose.

As the world becomes more aware of the significance of the Amazon, home to nearly 400 billion trees, working in this vast region has become ever more dangerous for activists and journalists. Fires, land grabs, and the invasion of reserves have all spiked over recent decades, pushing the world's biggest forest ever closer to a point of no return. The last few years have seen efforts to reduce deforestation, but the question remains; can we save this globally essential ecosystem before it is too late?

A group of expert writers took up Phillips' partially completed manuscript, committed to his mission of uncovering the truth about deforestation and searching for solutions. Blending in-depth reporting and encounters with indigenous activists, ecologists, farmers, and political figures, How to Save The Amazon is a dazzling account of how we can fight ecological destruction and stand in solidarity with the Earth's environmental defenders.©2025 Dom Phillips (P)2025 Bonnier Books UK Ecosystems & Habitats Environment Environmentalists & Naturalists Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Professionals & Academics Science Ecosystem
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I'm brazilian and have been hearing about the issues in the Amazon since I was a child. For the first time I feel like I have an understanding of this through their peoples perspective.

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