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Bolsonaro’s ‘surrender of Amazon to crooks played role in murders of Phillips and Pereira’

Brazilian president’s dismantling of environmental safeguards partly to blame, says politician leading inquiry

The Guardian - UK

Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap

Illegal businesses form an interlocking web in the Brazilian remote region where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed, threatening Indigenous communities and local ecology

The Guardian - US

Brazilian indigenous defender Pereira buried with traditional send-off

Bruno Pereira, the Brazilian indigenous defender killed this month while investigating threats to isolated tribes in the Amazon, was laid to rest Friday in his home state of Pernambuco in the country's northeast.

Reuters

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Calls for justice amid fears inquiry into killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira stalling

Three men are in custody and more arrests are planned, but the suspected murder weapon has not been found

The Guardian - US

In Amazon region hit by double murder, poverty fuels violence

Atalaia do Norte (Brazil) (AFP) - A short walk from the spot where British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira set out for their final journey, people sit in the blistering sun breaking rocks into pieces with hammers.

AFP

‘We all demand justice’: the unsolved murder of the man Bruno Pereira mentored

The deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira echo that of Maxciel Pereira dos Santos, the Indigenous protection agent killed in cold blood three years ago

The Guardian - UK

Brazilian authorities find boat of slain British journalist, indigenous expert

The boat used by killed British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira to travel Brazil's Amazon was found on Sunday evening, authorities said in a press statement.

Reuters

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Five more suspects linked to murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in Brazil

Police in Brazil have said eight people are suspects linked to the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.

Evening Standard

Brazil police identify five more suspects in murder of British journalist

Brazilian federal police on Sunday said that five more suspects helped hide the bodies of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, after having already arrested three men for their murder in the Amazon rainforest.

Reuters

Phillips and Pereira: killed trying to save the Amazon

Atalaia do Norte (Brazil) (AFP) - Four years after they first went on an expedition deep into the jungle of Brazil's Javari Valley, Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira teamed up again, each working on a big new project to save the Amazon.It cost them their lives.

AFP

Brazil police identify five more people linked to killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Officers have already arrested three people, one of whom confessed to killing British journalist and indigenous advocate

The Guardian - UK

Brazil indigenous defender, sidelined under Bolsonaro, gave life for 'abandoned' tribes

Six tribes from Brazil's remote Javari Valley packed into an assembly hall on June 11 to lament the disappearance of Bruno Pereira, an advisor to their collective, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist reporting on his work.

Reuters

‘Bolsonaro’s fingerprints are all over this’: how president’s war on Amazon played part in double killing

Brazil’s leader has steadily attacked those defending the region where journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira lost their lives

The Guardian - UK

Brazil Indigenous expert was 'bigger target' in recent years

Before disappearing in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, Bruno Pereira was laying the groundwork for a mammoth undertaking: a 350-kilometer (217-mile) trail marking the southwestern border of the Javari Valley Indigenous territory, an area the size of Portugal

The Independent UK

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AFP

British journalist confirmed dead in Brazil, US urges 'accountability'

Atalaia do Norte (Brazil) (AFP) - Brazilian police on Friday officially identified the remains of British journalist Dom Phillips, who was found buried in the Amazon after going missing on a book research trip.

AFP

Amazon killers acted alone: Brazil police

Atalaia do Norte (Brazil) (AFP) - Brazilian police said Friday the killers of British journalist Dom Phillips and his expert guide Bruno Pereira had acted on their own initiative and not as part of a criminal group -- an assertion rejected by Indigenous leaders.

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: How extreme heat is changing the way we live

In today’s newsletter: The climate crisis effects everyone, in different and unequal ways. Archie Bland takes a look at how this week’s scalding temperatures have played out on each continent

The Independent UK

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Who are the men missing in the Amazon?

Respected journalist and expert guide have been missing since 5 June and a suspect has reportedly confessed to their murders, according to local police

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The Independent UK

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Family of murdered Briton say they are ‘heartbroken’

The two were last seen in the Amazon’s Javari Valley

The Guardian - US

Brazil Indigenous agency staff strike over Bruno Pereira disappearance

Employees walk off the job amid anger over statements criticising the former Funai employee who went missing with Dom Phillips

Reuters

Brazil police arrest second suspect in case of missing journalist

Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested a second suspect in the investigation of the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest in western Brazil.

The Guardian - US

The writer and the activist: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira bonded over the Amazon

The two men spent years traveling together in canoes and on foot. They disappeared on what was supposed to be a final trip

The Independent UK

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Who are the men missing in the Amazon?

Respected journalist and expert guide have been missing since 5 June and a suspect has reportedly confessed to their murders, according to local police

The Independent UK

Belongings of missing men found tied underwater in Amazon

Brazil’s search for an Indigenous expert and a journalist who disappeared in a restive area of the Amazon a week ago has advanced with the discovery of a backpack, laptop and other personal belongings of the men submerged in a river

Reuters

Belongings of missing British reporter and companion found in Amazon -police

Brazilian police said on Sunday search teams have discovered belongings of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira who went missing in the Amazon rainforest a week ago.

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