{"id":287946,"date":"2025-06-11T12:16:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/how-to-save-the-amazon\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:16:57","slug":"how-to-save-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=287946","title":{"rendered":"How to Save the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"article-title-block_0f38f222c2940b57a36fd428c51d9305\" class=\"article-title \">\n<div class=\"article-title__container\">\n<div class=\"article-title__eyebrow\">\n                            <span class=\"article-title__labels\"><br \/>\n                                                                                <span class=\"article-title__label\"><br \/>\n                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/content\/covering-climate-now\/\">Covering Climate Now<\/a><br \/>\n                                        <\/span><br \/>\n                                    <\/span><br \/>\n                                    <span class=\"article-title__label-divider\"> \/ <\/span><br \/>\n                                                                            <span class=\"article-title__date\">June 11, 2025<\/span>\n                                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>Listen to the people who live there, the slain journalist Dom Phillips advised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad-block ad siderail-ad float-r-w-3 break-r-4\">\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"ad-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dom-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-559670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dom-Phillips.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dom-Phillips-275x173.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dom-Phillips-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dom-Phillips-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dom-Phillips-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dom-Phillips-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dom-Phillips-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dom-Phillips-793x500.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\n<p>Dom Phillips, left.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credits\">(Courtesy of Nicol\u00f3 Lanfranchi)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"aside-block-block_98ee68a81d68abb082ea003105a0c554\" class=\"aside-block  float-l-w-2\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CCN-logo.png\" alt=\"Covering Climate Now logo\"\/>This excerpt of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/801709\/how-to-save-the-amazon-by-dom-phillips\/\"><em>How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist\u2019s Fatal Quest For Answers<\/em><\/a> is presented by <a style=\"--tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/coveringclimatenow.org\/\"><em style=\"--tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000;\">Covering Climate Now<\/em><\/a>, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by <em style=\"--tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000;\">Columbia Journalism Review<\/em> and <em style=\"--tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000;\">The Nation<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered three years ago this month during a reporting trip for the book Phillips was writing, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseagreen.com\/product\/how-to-save-the-amazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to Save the Amazon<\/a><em>. Jonathan Watts, Phillips\u2019s colleague at <\/em>The Guardian<em>, and others who knew him have honored his memory by finishing his book about the vast South American rainforest vital to global climate stability. Below is an adaptation from the book<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap is-style-dropcap\">Dom left us with a big unanswered question: How Do We Save the Amazon? In an outline for the final chapter of his book, he wrote, \u201cListen to Indigenous People.\u201d The world, he added, \u201cis not a disconnected, random series of nations and societies, but an interconnected whole whose survival depends on cooperation, not competition.\u201d To understand this, he argued, \u201cthe best teachers are the Amazon\u2019s original inhabitants: its Indigenous peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dom and Bruno spent the final day of their lives seeking lessons from those very teachers. Before writing this conclusion to the book Dom didn\u2019t live to complete, I retraced their steps, venturing back to the Javari Valley where their friendship was first cemented.<\/p>\n<p>Considering its location on the frontline of a deadly conflict, the Valley\u2019s Lago do Jaburu feels a blessedly tranquil place. A couple of archetypal riverine homes, built on stilts, with wood-plank walls and corrugated roofs, are perched at the top of a steep bank above the Itaqua\u00ed river. Dom and Bruno had come here to join an Indigenous surveillance team that patrolled the border between the protected territory and its hinterlands.<\/p>\n<div id=\"current-issue-block_191abcf449a973dbacce25653ba4a974\" class=\"current-issue  float-l-w-2\">\n<h4 class=\"current-issue__title\">\n                    Current Issue<br \/>\n            <\/h4>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/issue\/july-august-2025-issue\/\" class=\"current-issue__cover\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cover0725.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of July\/August 2025 Issue\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the morning and afternoon of that last day, Dom\u2014as rigorous as ever\u2014individually interviewed all 13 men on the surveillance team, asking them the same questions: How did they protect their territory, for whom were they protecting nature, in what way were they affected by the political situation?<\/p>\n<p>The political situation in Brazil had changed a great deal after Jair Bolsonaro was elected president in 2019. In his first full year in power, Amazon deforestation hit the highest level in more than a decade. Brazil\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions rose 12.2 percent from 2020 to 2021, the highest in 19 years. Meanwhile, there was a 38 percent decrease in the number of fines for environmental crimes. Bolsonaro\u2019s far-right government was letting this happen, yet it not only denied responsibility, it noisily blamed others.<\/p>\n<p>I learned about Dom\u2019s interviews with the surveillance team partly by speaking with a member of that team, Higson Dias Kanamari, of the Kanamari people. Higson recalled his last encounter with Dom with a mix of affection and horror. \u2018\u2018He was very happy to be among us Indigenous people,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen he was with us, he had a second family. We looked after him. I could see the pleasure he had from being with us. Unfortunately, we couldn\u2019t anticipate the extent of the evil that people wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"cta-block_5cec22b13f9a83c4132a97d8d0ad4960\" class=\"cta float-l-w-3\">\n<p>For weeks after Dom and Bruno\u2019s deaths, the nearest town of Atalaia do Norte was flooded with reporters. Residents wryly noted that the intense coverage of the death of a white foreign journalist was in striking contrast with the murder three years earlier of FUNAI officer Maxciel Pereira dos Santos, who had worked closely with Bruno in tracing illegal fishing and hunting operations. Maxciel\u2019s family believes the assassination was carried out by the same people who killed Bruno and Dom. But nobody was ever charged, and the case barely made a ripple outside the region.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the double standards, Higson said the treatment of the two crimes showed the power of stories that can attract a global audience. \u201cWhen they killed Maxciel, nothing happened. But with Dom and Bruno, there was an enormous interest.\u201d He saw this as a positive: \u201cThe media was the focal point for the world to learn about the defenders of the forest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dom was an unusual Amazon martyr in being white and from a rich nation. Most of the others were Indigenous, <em>quilombolas<\/em>, <em>ribeirinhos<\/em>\u2014victims of murders that were never investigated or covered by the media, people whose names and faces were largely unknown outside their hometowns. It is a similar story across the world, where more than 1,900 people have been murdered since 2012 trying to protect their land and resources. That\u2019s an average of one killing every two days.<\/p>\n<section aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad fullwidth-ad contained row position-relative ad-block alignfull \">\n    <!--Ad policy starts here--><br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"mid-ad-policy\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n        <!--Ad policy ends here--><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>I wonder how Dom would have written about the post-Bolsonaro years. Since he and Bruno died, there have been a few positive signs of change. In 2023, the Workers\u2019 Party president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva promised zero deforestation by the end of the decade, appointed Brazil\u2019s first Indigenous minister, Sonia Guajajara, recognized more than half a dozen new Indigenous territories, initiated moves toward a bioeconomy, and saw his environment minister, the Amazonian Marina Silva, delay approval for oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon river and a new license for the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam.<\/p>\n<section id=\"popular-block_0e8c1544c76f7536ecda071879c80e65\" class=\"popular-articles\">\n<div class=\"swiper\">\n<p><h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<p>            <span class=\"swipe-msg\"><span class=\"sr-only\">\u201cswipe left below to view more authors\u201d<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<ol class=\"popular-articles__list\">\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>This was progress, though it was uneven and not nearly enough. Indigenous groups in the Javari Valley said they saw no improvement on the ground. Elsewhere, some problems became worse. The agribusiness-dominated Congress moved to limit future land demarcations and tried to push forward new megaprojects, including a major upgrade of the BR-319 highway through one of the last pristine areas of rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>It is a reminder, if one were needed, that government-led command-and-control politics are important but limited. Deforestation has been cut by an impressive 50 percent, but this merely slowed the destruction. The Amazon is still moving ever closer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/archive\/tropical-forests-are-flipping-from-storing-carbon-to-releasing-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a tipping point<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the forest and its people are to resist this and maintain their diversity, independence, and traditional culture, a more profound transformation is needed. The core Amazon battle is for hearts and minds. Sure, defending territory on the ground was a crucial first step. Securing government support could then slow destruction. Bringing transparency to beef and soy supply chains would help too. As would a rethink about destructive infrastructure projects. Valuing forests more alive than dead would be a game changer. Securing international finance should accelerate the transition to a sustainable future. Ecotourism and carbon taxes might have a role to play. Compelling global pharmaceutical companies to share the benefits of biodiversity would incentivize conservation and support livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>But for all of these ideas to work, what matters most is a healthier way of thinking about the forest. It is about listening, about building a new relationship with nature. Or, better still, rediscovering the virtues of an old one. That does not need to be complicated. It can be instinctive. It can be the feeling of delight in seeing the world as it should be. It can even start with the simple expression of joy Dom shared in the last social media post of his life: <em>\u00a1Amaz\u00f4nia, sua linda!\u2014<\/em>Amazonia, you beauty!<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-end-\" class=\"article-end \">\n<div class=\"article-end__authors\">\n<div class=\"article-end__author\">\n<h5 class=\"article-end__author-name\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/jonathan-watts\/\">Jonathan Watts<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/h5>\n<div class=\"article-end__author-bio\">\n<p>Jonathan Watts, a cocreator of Suma\u00fama.com and the Rainforest Journalism Fund, is the Amazon rain forest\u2013based global environment editor of <em>The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- Tag ID: thenation_incontent_2 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"collections collections--col-0\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 class=\"collections__title\">More from <span class=\"not-italic\">The 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