Good morning. On 5 June 2022, Guardian contributor Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were shot dead in a remote part of the Amazon in western Brazil. They were travelling along the Itaquai river after meeting with Indigenous activists who patrol the Javari valley to protect it from illegal fishing and mining gangs.
Dom and Bruno’s deaths were an incomprehensible loss for their family and friends – but also a signal of the violence that threatens those who highlight the dangers posed by extractive industries to the world’s most important carbon store. One year on, in collaboration with an international consortium, the Guardian is publishing the Bruno and Dom project: a four-day series that seeks to honour their work, and continue it. Today’s newsletter, with the Guardian’s global environment editor, Jonathan Watts, takes you through the first part of the series.
