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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

Banks and UK supermarkets accused of backing deforestation in Brazil

By funding and stocking products from Brazilian meat giant JBS, firms have also supported land-grabbing, investigation claims

The Guardian - UK

Bruno Pereira buried in his home state after ceremony led by Indigenous tribes

Funeral held in Pernambuco of Indigenous expert who was killed in Amazon region with journalist Dom Phillips

The Guardian - UK

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Indigenous and family mourn expert killed in the Amazon

Members of Brazilian Indigenous groups, friends and family members have gathered to mourn Bruno Pereira, an expert on Indigenous peoples who was killed with a British journalist during a trip to the heart of the Amazon rainforest

The Independent UK

Dom Phillips obituary

Brazil-based UK journalist and author who championed the role of Indigenous people in saving the Amazon

The Guardian - UK

Ecuador loses control of Amazon city in anti-government protests

Ecuador's government is trying to retake control of Puyo, a city in the country's Amazon region, after violent clashes and the burning of a police station by demonstrations during nationwide protests against the economic policies of President Guillermo Lasso.

Reuters

Dom Phillips: British journalist killed in Amazon was ‘collateral damage’ in drunken ambush, Brazil’s vice-president says

Three fishermen have been arrested in relation to the deaths

The Independent UK

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Brazilian police reconstruct murder of British journalist and indigenous expert

A fisherman who has confessed to participating in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira has taken part in a police reconstruction of the crime.

Reuters

Dom Phillips: Boat used by murdered British journalist and indigenous expert found sunk with sandbags

The speedboat used by murdered British journalist Dom Phillips to travel in the Amazon rainforest has been found by police underwater weighed down with six sandbags.

Evening Standard

Police recover boat used by Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Boat found near bank of Itaquaí River in Brazilian state of Amazonas to be sent for forensic examination, police say

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

Brazilian police identify five more suspects in killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Bodies were found in a remote part of the Amazon, after a 1hr 40min journey by boat and almost 3km by foot

The Independent UK

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

After writer's murder in the Amazon, can his vision survive?

British journalist Dom Phillips’ quest to unlock the secrets of how to preserve Brazil’s Amazon was cut short when he was killed along with a colleague in the heart of the forest he cherished

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The Conversation

The Amazon rainforest is disappearing quickly — and threatening Indigenous people who live there

Forests throughout the world are shrinking year after year — and Brazil is the epicentre. According to the World Wildlife Fund, more than a quarter of the Amazon rainforest will be devoid of trees by 2030 if cutting continues at the same speed.

Reuters

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.

The Independent UK

Dom Phillips: Third man arrested by police investigating Amazon killings

But family and friends are said to fear a cover-up after police said suspects were not acting on orders from anyone else

The Independent UK

Brazil: police arrest 3rd suspect in Amazon deaths

Brazil’s federal police said Saturday that a third suspect in the deaths of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira has been arrested

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Brazil police arrest third suspect in murder of British journalist and indigenous expert

Brazilian federal police on Saturday said they had arrested a third suspect in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest nearly two weeks ago.

The Guardian - UK

‘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

Dom Phillips knew risks but was committed to his work, sister says

British journalist whose body was found in Brazilian Amazon believed book he was working on was ‘urgent’, says Sian Phillips

The Independent 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

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 18 June 2022

Bitcoin is crashing, Celsius has frozen over, but this time it's not just billionaires losing their bucks. The dirty laundry of the crypto world is front page news and regulators are finally taking notice.

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A British journalist's remains have been found in Brazil's Amazon, police say

Human remains found deep in Brazil's Amazon have been identified as belonging to British journalist Dom Phillips, according to Brazil's federal police.

The Independent UK

Remains found in Amazon rainforest were of British journalist Dom Phillips, police say

Suspect confessed to murdering two men before revealing where he hid bodies, according to officers

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