The journalist and Indigenous expert travelled upstream in Brazil’s far western Amazon region, a trip from which they did not return alive
Dom Phillips loved the Amazon and he loved the Amazon’s fish. His favourite was the, a speckled South American peacock bass whose Indigenous name means “friend of the trees”.
“He sat down right there with a recorder just like this one,” said Rubeney de Castro Alves, one of the owners of Javari Expeditions, breaking down in tears as he remembered his brief encounter with Phillips and the smile-filled selfie they took before he left. The last known picture of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira on their journey into the Amazon ahead of their disappearance.From Atalaia do Norte, the men headed south along the meandering River Itaquaí. They stopped at a riverside hamlet to collect some paddles Pereira had commissioned for the Indigenous people whose cause he had championed.
Early the next day Phillips, who was writing a book called How to Save the Amazon, began his interviews with members of the 13-strong surveillance team tasked with keeping environmental criminals out of“I was with him on Thursday, Friday and Saturday,” said one of those Indigenous guards, Tumi Matis.
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