Altamira and the real issues of the Amazon: big business versus people and animals? (more talk less travel this time)
It's two years today 6th June, as I'm putting the finishing touches to this blog post, since Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered in the Brazilian Amazon, by people involved in illegal fishing. And a lot of things changed on that date. MANY environmental defenders and journalists have been murdered before and since, but their deaths were widely reported and have had - and continue to have - wide repercussions throughout Brazil and through the world. The issues continue.... here's an article about the ongoing danger for environmental journalists , and here's an article about the Dom Phillips Foundation being set up by Dom's widow Ale who I was lucky enough to meet when I was in Salvador in March this year. For those who don't know, Dom's sister Sian was my choir leader for ten years and I play music with her; and her speech at her brother's funeral committing to keep Dom's message alive inspired me to organise a festival about the Am