New projects celebrate life and legacy of pair murdered in Amazon

Three years after the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira were murdered in the Amazon, two major new projects will celebrate their lives and work and the Indigenous communities and rainforests both men sought to protect.

- Tiago Rogero

Friends of Phillips have completed the book he was writing at the time of his death - How to Save the Amazon - which was published in the UK, the US and Brazil yesterday.

The book aims to highlight solutions for preserving the world's largest tropical rainforest, focusing primarily on the experiences of its Indigenous peoples and other inhabitants. Phillips had completed less than half of it at the time of his death.

"Finishing it was important to show that Dom and Bruno's voices were not silenced," said Phillips' widow, Alessandra Sampaio, who oversaw the project.

Meanwhile, a new Guardian podcast series, Missing in the Amazon, will be released on 5 June to mark the third anniversary of their murders in the remote Javari valley region.

The podcast is the fruit of a three-year investigation by Tom Phillips, the Guardian's Latin American correspondent, who joined the 10-day search for Dom Phillips and Pereira after they vanished in June 2022.