Brazilian police have arrested two men in connection with the alleged murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. The pair went missing on an expedition in the Javari region
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira set off into the forest on 2 June for what was supposed to be a four-day trip. Phillips, who was a frequent contributor to the Guardian, was there to research a book he was writing, How to Save the Amazon. But by Sunday 5 June, they had not returned.
They had worked together before. In 2018, the photographer Gary Calton went with Phillips and Pereira on an expedition. At the time, Pereira was an official at the Brazilian government’s Indigenous agency Funai. He was tracking the movements of an uncontacted tribe from afar to ensure they remained protected. Pereira worked to help Indigenous communities protect their land – which is under constant threat from illegal fishing, miners and drug traffickers.
