‘Keep going, Ale’


A sign that reads in Portuguese ‘Justice for Dom and Bruno’, with images of Dom (left) and Pereira, displayed on the Arcos da Lapa aqueduct during a protest by environmental groups asking for justice for their deaths in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. — AP

IN 2018, British journalist Dom Phillips embarked on a 17-day journey into the Javari Valley – a remote and barely-accessible expanse of indigenous land in the western Brazilian Amazon.

He was tracking signs of an uncontacted group increasingly threatened by illegal activity. It was a gruelling 1,050km expe­dition by boat and foot – across slick log bridges, through snake-infested jungle and suffocating heat.

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