serious concern after the disappearance of a journalist and an anthropologist

This is information that is making headlines in Brazil. For three days, a British journalist and a Brazilian anthropologist have not given any sign of life. They were on assignment in the Amazon. The two men had received death threats a few days before their disappearance.

In the air and on the waters of the Javari River, research is underway. The journalist’s wife called for help. “I would like to appeal to the federal government and the relevant agencies to intensify the search, because we still have some hope of finding them”, asks, in tears, Alessandra Sampaio, the wife of Dom Phillips. The two men were investigating the many indigenous tribes in this region of the Amazon. Land that is also coveted by logging and mining operators.