How to Save the Amazon

‘A brilliantly colourful work of reportage … a haunting and truly important read’ – ‘The greatest books of 2025’ * The Telegraph *‘ultimately as inspiring and devastating as the Amazon itself’ * The Guardian *‘Rooted in conflict, but searching for solutions’ * New York Times *‘A fascinating, multilayered work’ * Literary Review *‘A legacy in ink’ * The Star *‘A rare achievement … a wonderful legacy’ * LAB *‘A compelling reminder of what is at stake’ * Latin America News *‘Powerful’ * The Associated Press *‘a dazzling account of how we can fight ecological destruction and stand in solidarity with the Earth’s environmental defenders’ * Americas Society *‘Fragments of hope, grim statistics’ * Associated Press *‘How to Save the Amazon is a work of courage interrupted by tragedy. It is a tribute to Dom Phillips’ passion and open-heartedness that his friends came together to finish his work. No book speaks more persuasively to the importance of the Amazon and the dangers that it faces’ – Elizabeth Kolbert * Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction *‘This book bleeds with the passion, tenacity and eloquence of a man who gave his life for the Amazon. Dom’s intense life, cut short, will inspire and unite environmental defenders the world over’ – Yuvan Aves, author of Intertidal‘Bold, pacy, bursting with optimism and filled with vivid descriptions, this is the work of an indomitable soul’ – Guy Shrubsole, author of The Lost Rainforests of Britain‘A defiant triumph of a book that roars forth from the frontlines of this deadly war against our life-support systems. By turns shocking, heartbreaking and deeply inspiring, this book - this act of solidarity - makes my heart leap. For there in the deeply researched intricacies and complexities of a forest torn apart are the seeds of hope: the courageous people fighting back, and they will not be silenced thanks to Dom and his brilliant pen-mates’ – Gaia Vince, author of Adventures in the Anthropocene‘This is an important book which we should all read. Heartbreaking, devastating … yet, also somehow hopeful. How to Save the Amazon records the relentless destruction of nature and its brutal effect on communities but it’s also a rallying call to listen to those who know: the indigenous people who have lived and protected this magnificent part of our planet for centuries’ – Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature‘This book is the best possible tribute to a martyred colleague-these writers have helped finish the work he couldn’t, offering a picture of this crucial place and suggesting some of the ways we might still help it to survive. We can’t let life on this Earth be snuffed out; this powerful book will help us to rise to this challenge’ – Bill McKibben

Dom Phillips was a highly experienced British freelance journalist. He moved to Brazil in 2007 and wrote extensively for British and American newspapers.

In 2023, How to Save the Amazon was awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant by the Whiting Foundation. In June 2022, Dom Phillips and his colleague Bruno Pereira were killed in a remote part of the Amazon while researching this book.

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