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Missing in the Amazon: the frontline

Missing in the Amazon: the frontline

The Guardian2 days ago
This podcast contains some swearing.
If you want to hear some of the music that Dom loved, there are two Spotify playlists.
If you want to know more about the environmental challenges the Amazon is facing, the Guardian's global environment editor, Jon Watts, has done a three-part series for our sister podcast Science Weekly.
Alessandra Sampaio has founded an institute in Dom's name to promote education in the Amazon.
Credits
This series was reported and presented by Tom Phillips.
It was written by Tom Phillips and Joshua Kelly.
Joshua Kelly was the series producer.
The producers were Poppy Damon, Ana Ionova and Leticia Leite.
The series development was by Redzi Bernard.
The sound designers were Pascal Wyse and Simon Panayi.
Pascal Wyse was also the music supervisor.
The executive producer was the Guardian's global head of audio, Nicole Jackson.
The original music composition was by Stela Nesrine, with additional music production from Amon Medrado, and additional original house music by Adam Bourke.
The artwork, inspired by the last picture taken of Dom and Bruno, was by Auá Mendes.
The actors were: Amanda de Andrade, Igor Pedroso, Felipe Pacheco, Rodrigo Ternevoy and Tim Goddard.
Some of the wildlife recordings in this series were recorded in Amazonas state by Gareth Fry for the theatre company Complicite. You can check out their work at complicite.org.
We want to thank all the people who talked to us or helped in some way for this series:
Jonathan Watts, Johnnie Mitchell, Andy Pemberton, Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster, Andrew Fishman, Leo Sette, Felipe Finger, Eliesio Marubo, Binin Matis, Dama Matis, Valdeci da Silva Castilho, Tupiana Kanamari, Hitsamba Kanamari, Sônia Bridi, Rubens Valente, Tiago Rogero, Gary Calton, Danny Dee from Estúdio Rastro, João Laet, who also photographed many of our trips to the Amazon for this podcast, and Luciana Phillips.
With special thanks to: Orlando Possuelo, Tataco and Beto Marubo, Gareth and Sian Phillips, Beatriz Matos and Alessandra Sampaio.
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