A refusal to be silenced

New projects honour lives and legacies of killed men

- By Tiago Rogero

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.

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 last month.

The book aims to highlight solutions for preserving the world's largest tropical rainforest, focusing 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.