Alessandra Sampaio, right, is comforted during the funeral of her husband British journalist Dom Phillips. Alessandra Sampaio, right, is comforted during the funeral of her husband British journalist Dom Phillips. FRIENDS AND FAMILY have paid their final respects to British journalist Dom Phillips who was killed in the Amazon while researching a book about how to save the world’s largest rainforest.
Phillips, 57, and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, 41, were killed on 5 June on their boat on the Itaquai river, near the entrance of the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, which borders Peru and Colombia. “He was killed because he tried to tell the world what was happening to the rainforest and its inhabitants,” said Phillips’ sister Sian.
So sad, anoth person killed trying to get the right story out about the Amazon
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