Brazil ministers to visit site of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s murder Visit is part of push by Lula’s government to beat back illegal miners, loggers and poachers who wrought environmental havoc The Guardian - US · Feb 16, 2023
The Guardian view on Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: protect people, protect the planet Editorial: Journalists and environmental defenders are at greatest risk in Latin America. All those who put them in danger must be held accountable The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2023
Fish trader to be indicted over death of Brit Dom Phillips in Brazil Police allege that Colombian was 'mastermind' behind killing of journalist and and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira Wales Online · Jan 24, 2023
Brazil police say gang leader likely ordered killing of British journalist, Amazon expert Brazil's federal police said on Monday they had a "strong conviction" a gang leader known as "Colombia" ordered the brutal murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, killed in the Amazon rainforest last June. Reuters · Jan 23, 2023
Brazil police: Businessman ordered killings of men in Amazon Brazilian police plan to indict a Colombian fish trader as mastermind behind the killings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips, on June 5, 2022 The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2023
Brazilian police name alleged ‘mastermind’ behind murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira Police chief says Rubens Villar Coelho, whose nickname is Colômbia, ordered the murders of the British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert The Guardian - US · Jan 23, 2023
Lula to visit Amazon amid vow to tackle Yanomami Indigenous crisis Move comes after country’s minister for Indigenous people says issue is an ‘absolute priority’ The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2023
‘Amazonia, you beauty!’ How the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira renewed the fight for Brazil’s forests Six months on, is something positive coming from the killings that shocked the world? The Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2022
Witness to paradise being lost: my year in the dying Amazon In the past 12 months I have learned that the mass extermination of the Amazon is a climate catastrophe – and much more The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2022
Indigenous group denounces release of suspect in Amazon murder of British journalist, expert An indigenous group from the area of the Amazon rainforest where British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were murdered in June on Thursday deplored the release of one of the suspects in the killing. Reuters · Dec 9, 2022
Rare good news from the Amazon: Gigantic fish are thriving again Conservationists say a sustainable fishing program has helped the recovery of the local pirarucu — which can be up to 10-feet long and weigh 450 pounds. WEKU · Dec 7, 2022
First Thing: Trump did not disclose $19.8m loan while president Loan from Daewoo, a company with ties to North Korea, should have been reported in disclosures. Plus, mass strikes in Iran The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2022
Six months after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered, the Amazon remains unsafe for activists Activists are cautiously hopeful that the incoming president will bring relief to Bolsonaro’s forest-wrecking administration The Guardian - US · Dec 5, 2022
Richarlison praised as ‘idol Brazilians deserve’ after Bolsonaro era Goalscorer against Serbia at World Cup is being celebrated as much more than just a sporting hero The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2022
The Guardian - US · Oct 31, 2022 Lula ally pays tribute to Dom Phillips and vows to protect the Amazon With Bolsonaro gone, Marina Silva promises to honour murdered environmental activists by ending deforestation
The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2022 Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira remembered in Lancaster exhibition Exhibition at Halton Mill is part of a month of activities about the Amazon commemorating Phillips and Pereira
WEKU · Oct 28, 2022 This Amazon road led to vast deforestation. Brazil's Bolsonaro plans to pave it President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection Sunday, has pledged to fully pave BR-319 and turn it into a kind of jungle expressway, raising alarm from environmental groups.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2022 Bail granted to suspect in Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira murder case Rubens Villar Coelho, suspected of ‘leading and financing’ armed group, to await trial under house arrest
Liverpool Echo · Oct 21, 2022 Family of man shot dead in Brazil urging people to come together The bodies of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were found in a remote part of a rainforest
The Guardian - US · Oct 3, 2022 Brazilian left celebrates election wins for trans and Indigenous candidates Successes in congress as progressive standard bearer Lula is favourite to defeat Bolsonaro in second round of presidential vote
The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2022 In Brazilian Amazon, a 1,000-mile voyage so people can vote Sunday is election day in Brazil
The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2022 Fate of Amazon rests on Brazil election, say experts Further destruction under Bolsonaro could push vital rainforest past irreversible tipping point
The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2022 Why the West fears Bolsonaro could ignore Brazil election result OLD REDIRECTED World Affairs Editor Kim Sengupta on widespread concern that Brazil’s president might cling to power and trigger a violent confrontation
The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2022 More than 1,700 environmental activists murdered in the past decade – report Figures likely to be an underestimate, says Global Witness, as land defenders are killed by hitmen, crime groups and governments
The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2022 ‘We want to contaminate the street!’: the artist fighting Bolsonaro – with animal costumes Weary of repetitive demos, the Brazilian conceived an altogether more unexpected collective action featuring parrots, pink dolphins and six-legged beetles