Brazilian police have charged the alleged leader of a “transnational criminal organization” with being the mastermind of the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira…
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Brazil’s Javari valley is under threat. Lula’s government must protect it | Beto Marubo
Among my people, the Marubo, knowledge is transmitted through oral history, passed down by elders throughout the centuries. For many generations these stories described the…
View More Brazil’s Javari valley is under threat. Lula’s government must protect it | Beto MaruboMore than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand
More than 800m trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years to feed the world’s appetite for Brazilian beef, according…
View More More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demandBrazilian Amazon at risk of being taken over by mafia, ex-police chief warns
The rapid advance of organised crime groups in the Brazilian Amazon risks turning the region into a vast, conflict-stricken hinterland plagued by heavily armed “criminal…
View More Brazilian Amazon at risk of being taken over by mafia, ex-police chief warnsBruno Pereira and Dom Phllips were killed in the Amazon. Their Indigenous allies risk death to carry on the work
Three assassins walked into a bar deep in the Brazilian Amazon one night last October. Beers flowed, tongues loosened and the men were overheard bragging…
View More Bruno Pereira and Dom Phllips were killed in the Amazon. Their Indigenous allies risk death to carry on the workAmazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap
Near a sharp bend on the Itaquaí River, perched on a steep muddy bank, a lone wooden structure marks the last outpost of a fragile…
View More Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheapIn his own words: Dom Phillips’ reporting on Brazil and the Amazon
Over some of the most tumultuous years in Brazil, Dom Phillips bore witness to the politics of his adopted home and to the fate of…
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