How to Save the Amazon part 3: ask the people that know – podcast

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4.2 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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As a companion to the Guardian’s Missing in the Amazon podcast, global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to the question Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered: how can we save the Amazon? In the final episode of a three-part series, Jon encounters a radical new view of the Amazon’s history being uncovered by archaeologists. Far from an uninhabited wilderness, the rainforest has been shaped by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Jon finds out how their expert knowledge could be harnessed to secure the Amazon’s future. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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1:15.6	Not long after I'd first moved to Brazil as the Guardian's Latin America correspondent,
1:26.6	fellow British journalist Don Phillips invited me out for some I'd first moved to Brazil as the Guardian's Latin America correspondent,
1:32.1	fellow British journalist Don Phillips invited me out for some drinks.
1:36.9	We'd both recently found ourselves in Rio de Janeiro.
1:47.8	It was one of those balmy Rio nights that are made for sipping Kaiparinias or ice-cold beers. It was a welcome evening. I'd been struggling with Brazil's slow-moving bureaucracy, how expensive the city was, and the language of my
1:54.1	new home. Dom, on the other hand, had been living for several years in Sao Paulo and was already under the skin of Brazil,
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