The disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira – a timeline

# Amazon rainforest

# Americas

# Brazil

# Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

# Journalist safety

# Trees and forests

Dom Phillips, a journalist and frequent contributor to the Guardian, set off on a trip to a remote part of the Amazon with his friend and guide Bruno Pereira to research a book. Their disappearance and murder ignited a campaign to urge Brazil’s authorities to act and shone a spotlight on the increasingly hostile environment in the world’s largest rainforest

‘Defenders of nature’: a video tribute to Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips


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