Veteran correspondent Phillips, 57, and Pereira, 41, went missing on 5 June in a remote part of the rainforest rife with illegal mining, fishing and logging, as well as drug trafficking.
There is still much to clarify in the case, including a motive and the circumstances surrounding the killings, apparently carried out by firearm. Phillips, a longtime contributor to The Guardian and other leading international newspapers, was working on a book on sustainable development in the Amazon with Pereira as his guide, when they went missing.
Greenpeace Brazil said the deaths were "a direct result of the agenda of President Jair Bolsonaro for the Amazon, which opens the way for predatory activities and crimes... in broad daylight."
Stretches of the Amazon are anarchic, where no appeal to being a Guardian correspondent will impress the natives
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