Family and friends remember journalist Dom Phillips and activist Bruno Pereira who were murdered for trying to save the Amazon rainforest

It's one of the world’s most dangerous places, filled with snakes, spiders, jaguars and all manner of other life-threatening animal species. But even more dangerous are threats of the human kind: poachers, bandits and drug smugglers.

Yet Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira loved the region so much that they were willing to risk their lives to put a spotlight on the issues facing the world’s largest tropical forest.

In the end, the two men paid the ultimate price for their devotion: a local fisherman confessed to killing them both, burying their bodies in a remote location and putting sacks of soil in their boat so it could sink to the bed of the Itaquai river to avoid detection.