Hi, it's Helen here. Today in focus is on our summer break and in our absence, we wanted to give you the

chance to listen to this really excellent series called Missing in the Amazon. It's hosted by the

Guardian's Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips and it's from our new narrative strand, Guardian Investigates.

It's a feed where you can find all of the Guardian's award-winning narrative podcasts, plus every new series we release.

We'll see you on September 1st with the new today in focus, but in the meantime, here is episode 6.

Beth Amaroubou first heard about Dom's idea to write a book when they bumped into each other at Brasilia airport in 2021.

They had some time to kill and sat down together.

And then he said to me, Beto, I need your help with something.

I've got this idea and I want to run by you.

Don't you laugh at me.

And I said, okay, go on then.

I want to write this book

that will be like a manual

on how to save the Amazon.

I said, don't.

You're a gringo,

porra.

No,

I'm sorry.

He said,

Don,

you were a gringo.

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