Sister of journalist missing in Amazon urges Brazil to do more to find ‘bright star’

‘Time is crucial,’ Sian Phillips says amid concern authorities had deployed insufficient resources to find her brother Dom Phillips

The sister of the British journalist who has vanished in a far-flung corner of the Amazon has urged the international community to pressure Brazil to do more to find a man she called “a bright star” whose work illuminated the devastation of the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

Dom Phillips, a longtime Guardian contributor, was last seen on Sunday morning while travelling by boat through the remote Javari region with a renowned indigenous expert called Bruno Araújo Pereira.

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(SOURCE) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/07/dom-phillips-sister-journalist-missing-amazon-brazil

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