"As soon as we heard Dom was dead, there was no doubt in our minds that we would finish his book." Jonathan Watts, Amazonian environmental correspondent for the The Guardian, He remembers his colleague and friend Dom Phillips, who was killed three years ago on a jungle expedition while researching his book. How to save the AmazonOn June 5, 2022, Phillips disappeared while traveling with Brazilian indigenist Bruno Pereira along the Itaguaí River through the Javarín Valley, one of the largest indigenous areas in Brazil. Police began searching for him, and a campaign led by the journalist's wife, friends, and colleagues added pressure, but it wasn't until June 12 that they finally succeeded. the confession of the guilty parties, which would lead to the location of the bodies of the two men.

Guatemala exports more than 500 million dollars worth of forest products every year, according to data from the Guatemalan Forest Information System (Sifgua). A business that has also been growing in recent years in a country where 33% of the territory is covered by forest. Although more than half of these forests are protected, deforestation has slowed but not stopped: the country loses about 200 square kilometers of green forest every year.

"Look, the river runs through a pipe! It's crap! It's just stone, look! The water runs through the Florentino tunnels there," shouts indigenous leader Ana Rutilia Ical, tears running down her cheeks as she watches from behind the razor wire that prohibits access to the Cahabón River. A river that is no longer a river. At least in this stretch, where the water runs through cement channels that pierce the mountains of San Pedro Carchá, a municipality in central Guatemala. Here the turquoise colour that characterises the Cahabón does not exist. From a distance, only brown stones can be seen.

Four Catholic churches were burned last week in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The police are convinced that the fires were arson and, although the investigation is still open, it is assumed that the fires are related to the recent discovery of hundreds of bodies and unidentified graves that correspond to students of the former schools for indigenous children, run by religious communities (mostly Catholic) and in which the abuse of children was widespread.