Indigenous people and advocates are fighting for the Tanaru Indigenous land to remain an Indigenous territory, but ranchers want to take possession of the plot to turn it into pastures and soy fields.
On the 15th of June, anthropologist Beatriz Matos got the dreaded news: The mortal remains of her husband, Indigenist Bruno Pereira, and of the British journalist Dom Phillips had been found in the Javari Valley, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, ten days after they disappeared.