How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist's Deadly Quest for Answers

with Jonathan Watts

Can the world’s greatest rainforest be saved — and at what cost?

Guardian global environment editor Jonathan Watts shares the urgent story behind How to Save the Amazon — the book his friend, journalist Dom Phillips, was working on when he was murdered alongside Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in 2022.

Now living in the Amazon town of Altamira, Jonathan leads the team completing Dom’s unfinished manuscript. Blending vivid storytelling, frontline reporting and interviews with activists, scientists and farmers, the book reveals the forces driving rainforest destruction — and the brave resistance pushing back.

In this powerful and personal event, Jonathan reflects on the dangers of reporting from the front line, the hope that remains, and the race to protect the Amazon before it’s too late.