Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1

亚马逊之谜:消失事件 第一集

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2025-06-07

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Three years ago the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian Indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series. Find episode 2 – and all future episodes – by searching for ‘Missing in the Amazon’. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • Hey, this is Mike, coming to you on a Saturday with something a bit special.

  • The first episode of our new investigative podcast series, Missing in the Amazon,

  • about the Guardian journalist Dom Phillips and his friend,

  • the Indigenous defender Bruno Pereira.

  • They vanished one day in the Amazon rainforest in June 2022.

  • Our Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, tells the story of what happened next.

  • Once you've listened, if you want the second episode,

  • search for Missing in the Amazon on your podcast and hit subscribe over to Tom.

  • and teeming with wildlife, most of which you can't see, but you can hear.

  • Macaws, jaguars, howler monkeys, frogs, creatures constantly moving between the trees.

  • On the riverbank, at a small ramshackle port, two men were waiting.

  • Orlando and Tataku talked to me in Portuguese.

  • Their words are being spoken here by actors.

  • It was early, but the sun was already rising high,

  • ferociously hot, glinting off the muddy waters of the Javari River.

  • worked for the local Indigenous Association.

  • They were here to meet their colleague, Bruno Pereira,

  • and a British journalist he was travelling with, Dom Phillips.

  • Bruno was late, and he was never late.

  • 8.30. and there was no sign of the two men.