There is a war on nature. Dom Phillips was killed trying to warn you about it | Jonathan Watts

Bruno Pereira highlighted the ravaging of the rainforest. Dom told his story, says Jonathan Watts, the Guardian’s global environment editor

was always aimed at making the world a fairer, more accountable and enlightened place.

Dom knew the threat posed by the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who has encouraged illegal logging and mining,, attacked conservation groups, and slashed the budgets and personnel of forest and Indigenous protection agencies. Separating the personal and the professional is impossible. Dom the individual was as important as Dom the journalist. He was much loved by his family and friends. I met him in 2012, soon after I first arrived in Brazil and we immediately hit it off. He helped me adjust to my new home and infected me with his passion for Brazilian music, art, politics and nature. Already in the country for five years, Dom, it seemed, was knowledgeable about just about everything.

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