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Pedro, five, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma; a fund has been set up so that his family can afford expensive chemotherapy drug

“One of the most important days of my life,” are the words that anthropologist Beatriz Matos uses to describe her February visit to the Javari Valley on her first project as head of the Department of Territorial Protection and of Isolated and Recently Contacted Peoples inside the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.. Just eight months after […]

Illegal mining, logging, fishing, and drug trafficking have plagued the Indigenous people of the Javari Valley for years, and the region gained worldwide attention last June after Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips were murdered while reporting in the territory. 

Poor internet and logistical problems frustrate hearing into Amazon killing of British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert

At a Brazil memorial for murdered US activist and nun Dorothy Stang, there are two more people symbolically present

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — A high-level delegation of the Brazilian government traveled on Monday to the remote corner of the Amazon rainforest where British journalist Dom Phillips and

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/brazil-delegation-visits-amazon-region-where-pair-died/"></div>ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — A high-level delegation of the Brazilian government traveled on Monday to the remote corner of the Amazon rainforest where British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were murdered last year, to demonstrate just how much Brazil’s new government differs from that of form...

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Alessandra Sampaio preparing to visit remote area where husband and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were murdered last year

A man who allegedly ordered his henchman to track down and kill an Indigenous tribes expert in June in the Amazon Rainforest has been captured, police said.