The Latest Breaking News from Javari Valley

‘You’re looking to die’: the Brazil river where illegal fishing threatens lives

Poaching of endangered species flourishes despite widespread outcry – but sustainable fishing could end the violence engulfing the trade

The Guardian - US · Jun 3, 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

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

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 · Jun 19, 2022

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 · Jun 18, 2022

How the final journey of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira ended in tragedy

The journalist and Indigenous expert travelled upstream in Brazil’s far western Amazon region, a trip from which they did not return alive

The Guardian - US · Jun 17, 2022

Dom Phillips: 5 questions as Brit dies in jungle - from confession to mystery call

Dom Phillips' wife Alessandra Sampaio said the discovery of her beloved husband's body would now allow his heartbroken family to "bring them home and say goodbye with love"

Daily Mirror · Jun 16, 2022

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 Independent UK · Jun 16, 2022

Javari valley: the lawless primal wilderness where Dom Phillips went missing

The largest refuge for Indigenous tribes living in isolation is also a hotspot for poachers and illegal loggers and a major smuggling route for cocaine traffickers

The Guardian - US · Jun 9, 2022

Dom Phillips missing: Police question man as Amazon forest search enters its third day

Veteran journalist Dom Phillips went missing in the Javari Valley in the Amazon along with Bruno Araujo Pereir, an Indigenous affairs official, shortly after being threatened by a group of men

Daily Mirror · Jun 9, 2022