Dom Phillips
““My book aims to inspire people to think differently about the world’s greatest rainforest and how they can contribute towards protecting it.””
© Alessandra SampaioIn June 2022, British journalist Dom Phillips was shot dead with environmentalist Bruno Pereira while on his final research trip for How to Save the Amazon, a deeply reported, character-driven travel book on the destruction faced by the world’s most important rainforest. Recognizing the significance of this project, leading writers covering the Amazon have come together to finish Phillips’s book, which will be published by Bonnier Books UK in Spring 2025. This collaborative project will honor Phillips’s vision and his memory, offer up potential solutions that incorporate indigenous voices and experience, and insist that journalists will not be silenced.
A resident of Brazil, Dom Phillips (1964-2022) was awarded an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship in 2021. He was also the 2021 Cissy Patterson Environmental Fellow. His work was included by Greenpeace’s Unearthed in its Best Environmental Journalism. Phillips was a regular contributor to the Guardian, and his coverage with Reporter Brasil of the 2019 Amazon “Fire Day'' was nominated for the Gabo Prize, Latin America’s premier journalism award. He began his career in music journalism, writing for electronic dance music and clubbing magazine Mixmag in the 1990s. In 2009, he published Superstar DJs Here We Go!: The Rise and Fall of the Superstar DJ, a history of 1990s club culture.
Dom's murder in 2022 received major international coverage and condemnation, shining a bright spotlight on the issues in the Amazon that he wanted, through his writing, to bring to widespread attention.
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