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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips in the Amazon

Six months after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered, the Amazon remains unsafe for activists

The sun sets along the banks of the Amazon river.
The Amazon, home to the Javari Valley Indigenous territory, remains a dangerous region. Photograph: Sebastien Lecocq/Alamy

It was a hunting shotgun like the one used to murder Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira – and it was pointing straight at Julia Kanamari’s chest.

“You’ll be next,” she remembers the bleary-eyed gunman snarling after being caught smuggling a boat-load of illegally poached river turtles out of the Javari Valley Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon.

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