The Guardian view on protecting the Amazon: forest defenders must have support | Editorial

Dom Phillips ’ posthumously published book , How To Save the Amazon: A Journalist’s Deadly Quest for Answers , is a compelling reminder of what is at stake.

It is nearly three years since he was killed along with Bruno Pereira , a Brazilian government employee whose job was monitoring isolated Indigenous groups.

Under the far-right presidency of Jair Bolsonaro , progress on rainforest conservation went into sharp reverse and deforested areas grew rapidly.