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Missing in the Amazon

Missing in the Amazon

By: The Guardian
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 In one of the most remote corners of the Amazon jungle, a journalist and an indigenous defender disappear without a trace. Missing in the Amazon – our new six-part investigative podcast series uncovers what happened to Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira. Told for the first time by the people closest to them.© 2025 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Episode four: the ambush

    Episode four: the ambush
    Jun 16 2025
    The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, recalls the moment that he and others on the search team found Dom and Bruno’s belongings in a hidden area of flooded forest. The team finally discover what has happened to the men
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    25 mins
  • Episode three: the protector and the poacher

    Episode three: the protector and the poacher
    Jun 9 2025
    Bruno Pereira was considered one of the great Indigenous protectors of his generation. And this made him an enemy of a man called Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as Pelado. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, reports on the story of the two men and what happened when their paths collided
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    35 mins
  • Episode two: the journalist and the president

    Episode two: the journalist and the president
    Jun 5 2025
    What took British journalist Dom Phillips from the club nights of the UK dance scene as editor of MixMag to one of the most remote, and dangerous, corners of the Amazon rainforest? In 2022, Dom set off on a reporting trip with Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on uncontacted tribes, into the Javari valley, to investigate the criminal gangs threatening this region. And then they vanished
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    30 mins
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