Overview

• Commemorations are being held for British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who were murdered while documenting environmental crimes in the Amazon rainforest.
• Ruben Dario da Silva Villar, known as "Colombia," allegedly led a transnational criminal fishing syndicate and accused of ordering the murders and hiding the bodies.
• Friends, relatives and admirers gathered to call for justice and protection of indigenous lands a year after the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest.
• Phillips and Pereira vanished on June 5, 2022, and a fisherman who had confronted indigenous patrols in the area confessed to killing them.
• Some are calling on the government to do more to protect the Javari Valley, where drug runners and illegal poachers threaten the most isolated Indigenous groups in Brazil's Amazon.