Pereira and Phillips.... Funai has practically abandoned us," he said. Bolsonaro's office did not respond

.... Uncontacted Indians' yano in the Yanomami indigenous reserve.... Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/ FUNAI

indigenous agency Funai, in a creek off the river where they were last seen on June 5. However, a

The decision was appealed by Brazil's indigenous affairs agency Funai on behalf of the Xokleng

worked for the federal indigenous agency Funai, disappeared. The pair had been on a reporting trip in

RIO DE JANEIRO( Reuters)-Brazilian police have opened a criminal probe and interviewed at least four witnesses believed to be among the last to have seen a British journalist and an indigenous expert who went missing in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon jungle on Sunday. Guilherme Torres, the head of the interior department of Amazonas state's civil police, told Reuters in an interview that police had opened a criminal investigation and interviewed four witnesses while also seeking to loca

SAO PAULO( Reuters)-The boat used by killed British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira to travel Brazil's Amazon was found on Sunday evening, authorities said in a press statement.... The speedboat was submerged about 20 meters( 65 ft) deep under the Itacoai river in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil with the help of six sandbags, authorities said. They added they were led to the site of boat's sinking by the latest suspect in the killings, Jeferson da

There are lots of outsiders around there.... They could kill them both and there won't be anyone left," Rita told Survival International in a recorded interview, recalling a massacre of her people years ago." White men arrived at dawn and killed everyone.... My family escaped in a canoe," she said.In July, federal prosecutor Pael got a court injunction for the eviction of farmers from the Piripkura land, the most deforested territory of any isolated or recently contacted Amazon people....

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil( Reuters)-The search for missing British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest was nearing the end on Tuesday, as the area left to search grows smaller, a spokesman for indigenous group Univaja said. Phillips and Pereira went missing more than a week ago along a remote stretch of the Itacoai River in far western Brazil near the border with Colombia and Peru.... Eliesio Marubo, a lawyer for Univaja, said that indigenous

RIO DE JANEIRO( Reuters)-Brazilian police have interviewed two people among the last to have seen a British journalist and indigenous expert who went missing in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon jungle, the federal police said in a statement on Tuesday.... The two witnesses were not arrested, the statement said.... Indigenous patrols, who complain of weaker environmental law enforcement since President Jair Bolsonaro took office calling for fewer restrictions on tribal lands, regularly c