When Brazilian journalist Adecio Piran saw a WhatsApp message that British journalist Dom Phillips was missing in the Amazon, a shiver ran down his spine. Phillips was known for his coverage of environmental issues like illegal logging and poaching, writing for The Guardian, The Washington Post and others. Now he and Bruno Pereira, an Indigenous…
Reporting in Brazil’s Amazon regions that are rife with illegal logging, deforestation and poaching puts journalists and environmentalists at heightened risk