An evening showcasing Indigenous wisdom, culture, cutting edge science and data from the Amazon.
Join us for an evening exploring and celebrating the world’s largest rainforest.
We are bring together leading experts and voices from Amazonia and beyond showcasing the current reality in the biome, but also focusing on the way forward and solutions that can build change. Taking place on Earth Day, the event will build on the key themes explored in Dom Phillips’ book – How to Save the Amazon – which is being launched in paperback.
Dom Phillips was working on the book, alongside the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, when they were both ambushed. They are believed to have been assassinated by one of the criminal networks whose illegal activities they were working to expose. Dom’s book was only a third finished when he died. Alongside his publisher and literary agent, a group of journalists, experts and friends worked tirelessly to complete it, so that his account of the problems facing the Amazon and the people intent on solving them would not be silenced.
You’ll hear from a panel of of policy makers, academics, Indigenous Amazonian leaders and NGOs to discuss positive solutions in law, bioeconomy, agriculture and Indigenous rights. After this, wander the Museum with a drink from our bar to explore stands with experts showcasing how varied data is gathered and presented on deforestation to tell a more nuanced story about how to save the biome, from journalism and photography to film, real-time trade mapping and digital scanning and art.
Speakers include:
- Alessandra Sampaio – Campaigner and Dom’s widow
- Beto Marubo – Indigenous leader of the Marubo ethnic group
- Adana Omágua Kambeba – Indigenous leader, doctor and shaman
- Claudelice Silva dos Santos – human rights defender from the state of Pará
- Professor Yadvinder Malhi – Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
- Tasso Azevedo – General Coordinator of MapBiomas
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