No country in the world has the moral standing to talk to Brazil about the Amazon.” “We preserved more than the entire world. “First, you have to understand that the Amazon is Brazil’s, not yours, OK? That’s the first answer there,” Bolsonaro retorted. Noting rising deforestation and that the environment minister had met with loggers, Phillips asked President Jair Bolsonaro how he intended to demonstrate Brazil's commitment to protect the Amazon region. Phillips claimed the spotlight, inadvertently, during a televised press conference in July 2019. He recalled an editor telling him: “You spend too much time researching news stories.”Īmong local correspondents, he earned respect for his humility as well, often sharing others’ reportage rather than tooting his own horn. He was curious and thorough, whether parsing studies of projected rainfall decline in the agricultural heartland caused by Amazon deforestation or tracking down the driving test administrator who discovered a man disguised as his own mother to take her exam. He might message friends out of the blue, sharing news of spotting a ray with a 3-foot wingspan, reflecting a wonder more common among children than 57-year-old men, and he brought that spirit to his reporting.
Phillips often hiked in Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca Forest National Park and, atop his paddle board at Copacabana beach, was in his element: floating above the natural world and observing. He was versatile, but gravitated toward features about the environment as it became his passion. He wrote about Brazil for 15 years, in early days covering the oil industry for Platts, later freelancing for the Washington Post and New York Times then regularly contributing to The Guardian. Phillips would be gobsmacked to learn that his fate has troubled current and former U.K. Phillips' disappearance and then confirmed death has brought calls for justice from Brazil and abroad from actors, musicians and athletes, along with appeals for help to support his wife.
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