The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

Brazilian police and indigenous search teams dismissed reports on Monday that they had found the bodies of a British reporter and a Brazilian indigenous expert, more than a week after the pair were last seen in the Amazon rainforest.

Atalaia do Norte (Brazil) (AFP) - Brazilian authorities say they have found a backpack and personal effects of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert who disappeared in the Amazon last week, with the Briton's mother-in-law saying she has lost hope that they will emerge alive.

The family of missing journalist Dom Philips have said they think he and his colleague Bruno Pereira are dead a week after they went missing in Brazil.

The British journalist was travelling in the Amazon with Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira when they went missing

A main line of police investigation into the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous official in the Amazon points to an international network that pays poor fishermen to fish illegally in Brazil’s second-largest Indigenous territory

Brazilian investigators are skeptical that remains found in a river could be from a British journalist who went missing in the Amazon rainforest on Sunday, two police officers involved in the case told Reuters.

Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips went missing in the western Amazon, but the search has been called inefficient

A family member of journalist Dom Phillips said reports of human remains being found are ‘shocking’.

Andrew Downie profiles a friend and fellow journalist missing with Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in Brazil’s remote west