2025-06-05
30 分钟This is The Guardian.
Try to warn the world about the Amazon's destruction.
By Dom Phillips.
Read by Filipe Pacheco.
Phillips and Pereira disappeared on a research expedition into the far western Amazon.
Pereira had received death threats due to his work helping indigenous people protect the rainforest from illegal fishing and hunting.
When the pair did not return, a search was launched.
After 10 days, their bodies were found.
Two men will go on trial for their murder later this year.
Snake!
The cry came from near the end of the line of 11 men,
strung out along a narrow trail being hacked out of thick Amazon rainforest.
I shivered.
I had walked right past the danger lurking unseen in the dense undergrowth.
Poisonous snakes are one of the most lethal threats in this part of the world.
Indigenous people fear them, and they present even more danger to a bumbling,
middle-aged journalist like me.
Stumbling over roots the local men stepped lightly over in their rubber boots,
skidding on muddy ground where they were sure-footed.
Takivan Korubu, a taut, forbidding man with a wicked sense of humour, was unfazed.