LONDON — One year after British reporter Dom Phillips was murdered in Brazil while working on a book about saving the Amazon rain forest, a group of…
“How to Save the Amazon: Ask the People Who Know” is due to be published by Manilla Press, an imprint of publisher Bonnier Books, subject to fund-raising to allow completion of the remaining work.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Among the writers who will help to finish the work are Jon Lee Anderson who writes for the New Yorker, Tom Phillips and Jonathan Watts who work for the Guardian, and Andrew Fishman, president of the Intercept Brasil, as well as Brazilian writers. They will use notes and transcriptions of interviews conducted by Dom Phillips and conduct their own research trips to the Amazon region to complete the missing chapters.
Other journalists who also have experience covering issues related to the Amazon will fact-check and proofread the draft chapters, Watts said. “Dom was killed for this book,” he said. “The least we can do is finish the task to which he had devoted the latter part of his life. He may be gone, but he won’t be silenced.” Four people have been charged with double homicide and concealment of corpses.
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