Article 66GK4 Six months after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered, the Amazon remains unsafe for activists

Six months after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered, the Amazon remains unsafe for activists

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Tom Phillips in the Amazon
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Activists are cautiously hopeful that the incoming president will bring relief to Bolsonaro's forest-wrecking administration

It was a hunting shotgun like to the one used to murder Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira - and it was pointing straight at Julia Kanamari's chest.

You'll be next," she remembers the bleary-eyed gunman snarling after being caught smuggling a boat-load of illegally poached river turtles out of the Javari Valley Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon.

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