British journalist whose body was found in Brazilian Amazon believed book he was working on was ‘urgent’, says Sian Phillips
The sister of British journalist Dom Phillips has said her brother knew the risks of travelling to perilous regions of the Brazilian Amazon but continued to report from the area because he was committed to telling the story of Indigenous people and the fight for development models that might save the rainforest.
Phillips had been working on his book for more than a year and his four-day voyage to the remote west of Brazil was one of his final reporting trips. He expected to finish writing the manuscript by the end of this year. The Javari valley area is fraught with illegal logging, mining and fishing and it is believed Pereira knew of the pair’s fishing racket.
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