BRAZIL - British reporter Dom Phillips, Brazilian Bruno Araújo Pereira, boat trip Amazon region, found deceased, 5 Jun 2022 *ARRESTS*

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Police in Brazil are examining blood found in the search for British journalist Dom Phillips and local indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.

Traces of blood found on a boat belonging to a fisherman, who has been arrested, will be tested to see whether it is human or animal.

The pair went missing while travelling by boat on a reporting trip in the Amazon rainforest on Sunday.

Mr Pereira recently received threats over his work against illegal fishing.

The authorities said they were hopeful of finding the two men alive, but did not exclude any outcome, including that of murder in a region where drug-trafficking and poaching are rife, AFP news agency reports.

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Dom Phillips: Blood found in search for pair missing in Brazil

Tests will be carried out on blood found on a boat in the search for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira.
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Dom Phillips: selfless, stylish writer at home in rave culture and the Amazon​

Andrew Downie profiles a friend and fellow journalist missing with Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in Brazil’s remote west

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Dom Phillips: selfless, stylish writer at home in rave culture and the Amazon

Andrew Downie profiles a friend and fellow journalist missing with Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in Brazil’s remote west
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‘Evidence mounting’ of criminal involvement in disappearance of British journalist in Amazon​


“EVIDENCE SEEMS TO be mounting” in the Amazon that something criminal has happened to missing British journalist Dom Phillips, a family member said amid reports police have found possible human remains.

Paul Sherwood, the partner of Phillips’ sister Sian, said reports that police have found human matter while searching for Phillips and Brazilian indigenous affairs official Bruno Araujo are “shocking”.

Sherwood, 60, told the PA news agency: “We can only base our assessment on the evidence that is available, which is there seems to have been threats, that these people shouldn’t have disappeared.

“They had good communications equipment and they had good local knowledge so their disappearance and continued failure to turn up definitely suggests sinister events.

“And it is clear that there were threats and armed people in the area who issued those threats and may have been responsible for attacking them, so we obviously have to hope that wasn’t the case but the evidence seems to be mounting that something like that has happened.”

After reports that Brazilian police are analysing human matter found in the Itaquai River, near Atalaia do Norte’s port, Sherwood added: “I haven’t seen those, I knew there were some developments but I have been away from my computer.

“Obviously it’s very shocking to receive confirmation, if it turns out to be confirmation, of what we suspected, that there was a criminal basis to what’s happened.

“I don’t think anybody has sent that to us yet, although we are expecting some communication from police in Brazil fairly soon via the Brazilian embassy – as of now though I haven’t received anything.”

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Louisa Casson, head of forests and food at Greenpeace UK, told BBC Breakfast today: “It’s an incredibly distressing situation. Obviously there have been reports overnight about potential findings but that is still subject to analysis.

“I think what is also worth pointing out is that Dom, particularly in recent years, had started to do in-depth investigation into this context of growing violence that we are seeing in the Amazon as a result of the policies of current Brazilian government and President Bolsonaro.”

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‘Evidence mounting’ of criminal involvement in disappearance of British journalist in Amazon

Journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian official Bruno Araujo are missing from the Amazon forest.
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It seems odd that their boat apparently hasn't been found either.
If they came to harm, would the perpetrators also steal or hide their boat?
 
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Pair’s disappearance in Brazil’s Amazon tied to ‘fish mafia’

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — A main line of police investigation into the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous official in the A...
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''ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — A main line of police investigation into the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous official in the Amazon points to an international network that pays poor fishermen to fish illegally in Brazil’s second-largest Indigenous territory, authorities said.''

''The scheme is run by local businessmen, who pay local fishermen to enter the Javari Valley, catch fish, and deliver it to them. One of the most valuable targets is the world’s largest freshwater fish with scales, the arapaima. It weighs up to 200 kilograms (440 pounds) and can reach 3 meters (10 feet). The fish is sold in nearby cities, including Leticia, Colombia, Tabatinga, Brazil, and Iquitos, Peru.

The only known suspect in the disappearances is fisherman Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as Pelado, who is under arrest. According to accounts by Indigenous people who were with Pereira and Phillips, he brandished a rifle at them the day before the pair disappeared. He denies any wrongdoing and said military police tortured him to try to get a confession, his family told the Associated Press..''
 
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The wife and mother-in-law of the missing British journalist Dom Phillips have said their hopes of finding him alive had gone, in a heartfelt and heart-breaking message that paid tribute to him and his travelling companion Bruno Pereira.

Days of searches by army, navy, police and Indigenous residents of the far-flung region have thrown up little trace of the two men and Phillips’ mother-in-law said she had lost all hope of finding them alive.

“They are no longer with us,” she wrote on Instagram. “Mother nature has snatched them away with a grateful embrace. The material has been undone and incorporated into the earth they so loved and respected.”

“Their souls have joined those of so many others who gave their lives in defence of the rainforest and Indigenous peoples. Today they form part of an immense and pulsating vital energy that emanates from this immense greenery that is the heart of Brazil.”

Phillips’ wife posted the statement and said she agreed.

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Hope of finding Dom Phillips alive has gone, say mother-in-law and wife

The British journalist was travelling in the Amazon with Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira when they went missing
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The men gathered around a campfire at just after dawn, members of different Indigenous groups united in their determination to find Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips.

“We’re going to do everything we can to find them. We will not give up,” vowed Fabrício Ferreira Amorim, one of the Indigenous advocates coordinating the latest search mission for the two missing men.

Among the two dozen volunteers assembled in the jungle clearing that morning were members of four Indigenous peoples from the Javari region of the Brazilian Amazon: the Mayuruna, the Marubo, the Kanamari and the Matis.

Cristóvão Negreiros, a veteran Indigenous defender who works with Pereira and was supposed to have been travelling with the men the day they vanished, urged the volunteers not to lose hope.

“We are here to fight for Bruno and to ensure this never happens again," Negreiros told them as the group prepared to set off along the Itaquaí River for day seven of their quest for the truth about what happened to the British journalist and the Brazilian Indigenous advocate when they vanished in the early hours of last Sunday.

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‘A whirlwind of sadness’: search for pair missing in Brazil goes on even as hope evaporates

British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira vanished in remote corner of Amazon rainforest
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  • #32
whitelilac said:
It seems odd that their boat apparently hasn't been found either.
If they came to harm, would the perpetrators also steal or hide their boat?
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Absolutely, and presumably there would be an outboard motor as well.
 
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Seni said:
We are having to close our foundation, 30 years of work and research with indigenous reserves and National parks because these áreas have been over run by armed groups and illegal mining and crops.

We have not been able to travel for the past years.

I hope Mr Phillips is found safe.
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I am so sorry to hear that your foundation had to close.
I am concerned for Mr Pereira and Mr Phillips and hope they are found safe, but this might just be my naive take.
 
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Thank you Snoopster. It has been hard for many environmentalists.

We hope they will be found. Went missing relatively close to tourist areas.

But these áreas are not so far from the settlements or malocas of undiscovered tribes, who want to remain undiscovered. Funai (Brazilian asociación for protección of indigenous rights) is involved and I understand Sr Pereira is employed by them.

I think there is absolutely no way that Phillips or Pereira would get into that.

What we do know of course is that Brazil's Bozonaro has permitted the huge deforestation of the Amazon forest and did nothing to put out the fires.


It is a tragedy on a huge scale, as well as on a personal level. Hope these guys are found safe!
 
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Brazilian police have denied local reports of the discovery of the bodies of a journalist and an indigenous expert missing in the Amazon.

Brazilian media reported bodies had been found in the search for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira.

Police say that so far they have discovered personal items belonging to the pair as well as "biological material" still being examined.

The two men have been missing since 5 June.

Earlier on Monday, a well known Brazilian environmental journalist said Mr Phillips' wife had told him the bodies had been found.

Other media reports also suggested that Mr Phillips' family had been informed of the discovery.

The region's indigenous association Univaja, which first alerted authorities that the pair was missing, told the BBC that no bodies had been found.

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Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Police deny bodies found of missing Amazon pair

British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing on 5 June.
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This is terrible.
 
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