"Brazilian army launches search for missing UK journalist and local researcher", 07 June 2022

...The Brazilian army has launched a search for a British journalist and Brazilian researcher who went missing deep inside the Amazon rainforest earlier this week. Dom Phillips, a contributor to The Guardian and the Financial Times, and Bruno Pereira, an expert on indigenous peoples...

Pereira, a former official with Funai, the government’s indigenous affairs agency, had in recent weeks received threats from illegal gold miners and land grabbers over his work in the region...

Dom Phillips talks with indigenous people in Brazil’s Roraima State. He was researching a book on the rainforest when he disappeared. The situation has deteriorated in recent years as budget cuts to Brazil’s environmental enforcement agencies translate into reduced manpower and a growing sense of lawlessness in a region almost the size of the continental US...

...Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent for the Guardian, described Dom as one of the most seasoned journalists covering the Amazon. “His reporting for us on the Yanomami territory was absolutely second to none,” he said. “Very few journalists had dared to go up those rivers and get to those gold mines and Dom did it because he felt that was one of the most important stories of the moment in today’s Brazil”...