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Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira had received death threats for his work fighting poaching on reservation

With young Indigenous people leaving the Amazon in search of jobs the rainforest is losing one of its best lines of defense. Could ensuring they have economic opportunities at home help protect biodiversity?

British journalist Dom Phillips and his Brazilian guide, whose disappearance in the Amazon some two weeks ago sparked an international outcry, were killed by gunfire, Brazilian police said Saturday.

The UN and advocacy groups on Thursday expressed outrage at the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, which they linked to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s willingness to allow commercial exploitation of the Amazon. Veteran correspondent Phillips, 57, and Pereira, 41, on June 5 went missing in a remote part of the rainforest rife with illegal mining, fishing and logging, as well as drug trafficking. Ten days later, a suspect named Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira took police to a place where he said he had buried bodies near the city of Atalaia do No...

Traces of blood were found on the boat of a suspect arrested in connection with the disappearance of a British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert in