Supporters gather to honour the two missing men, while police point their investigations into the disappearance towards an international illegal fishing network operating out of the rainforest's tribal territory.
Supporters of a British journalist and his Brazilian guide — both of whom have now been missing in the remote Amazon for more than a week — gathered solemnly on Sunday on a beach in Rio de Janeiro.While many are in mourning, Dom Phillips's 13-year-old nephew holds out hope he can walk along the beach with his uncle again
Journalist Dom Phillips, 57, and Araújo Pereira, 41, a respected specialist in Brazil's Indigenous populations, disappeared in a region plagued by illegal fishing, logging, mining and drug trafficking. "They are no longer with us. Mother Nature has snatched them away with a grateful embrace," she said.
The two men were returning by boat to the city of Atalaia do Norte near where they had been working in the rainforest, but never arrived. "They are destroying the Amazon and our President only knows how to ride a motorcycle and jet-ski," she said.Authorities said a main line of police investigation into the disappearance was pointing to an international network dealing in illegal fishing in Brazil's second-largest Indigenous territory.
Authorities say illegal fishing near the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, where Phillips and Pereira went missing has raised the tension with local Indigenous groups in the isolated area near the country's border with Peru and Colombia.
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