Three years after UK journalist Dom Phillips was murdered, his widow and colleagues have published the book he was working on to expose illegal destruction of the Amazon and seek solutions to save the rainforest.

“I think of him every day,” his widow, Alessandra Sampaio, told AFP of her husband, who was shot dead in the Amazon on June 5, 2022 along with Indigenous-rights activist Bruno Pereira.

She was in London for the global launch of “How to Save the Amazon”, which Phillips, a freelancer for The Guardian and the Washington Post, was researching when he was killed.

The double murders triggered an international outcry and drew attention to the lawlessness fuelling the destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest.

Brazilian federal police have concluded the men were killed because of

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