Six months after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered, the Amazon remains unsafe for activists
by Tom Phillips in the Amazon from World news | The Guardian on (#66GK4)
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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