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Dom Phillips

Dom Phillips reported for the Guardian from Brazil. He was killed in 2022 alongside the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira while reporting a book on the Amazon. Read his obituary

March 2021

  • Workers at Brazil’s JBS, the world’s largest meat-processing firm, in Lapa, Paraná state.

    Animals farmed
    Brazil meat giant JBS vows net zero by 2040 amid record profits

  • Cattle stand in pens where they arrived from different ranches in the Amazon basin.

    Animals farmed
    Eating up the rainforest: China’s taste for beef drives exports from Brazil

January 2021

  • Cattle graze on feed ration on a ranch in Barretos.

    Animals farmed
    Brazilian beef farms ‘used workers kept in conditions similar to slavery’

    Workers on farms supplying world’s biggest meat firms allegedly paid £8 a day and housed in shacks with no toilets or running water

December 2020

  • A projection on the building of the National Congress with drawings of the Yanomami xapiri, the spirits of the Forest, is seen during a protest to evict illegal goldminers from Brazil’s largest indigenous Yanomami reservation.

    Biodiversity: what happened next?
    'Miners out, Covid out': threats to indigenous reserve in Brazil grow

    Illegal goldminers supported by Bolsonaro bring environmental destruction and coronavirus to Yanomami communities
  • The unpopular Marcelo Crivella is due to leave office in days after he was thrashed in elections.

    Rio de Janeiro mayor charged with corruption

    Bolsonaro ally Marcelo Crivella accused of leading ‘well-structured and complex criminal organisation’
  • ‘We are a country that was built on slavery’ ... Luedji Luna.

    ‘Brazil is a racist country, statistically’: Luedji Luna, the bold voice of Bahia

    Amid hostile rhetoric from her president, the singer is trying to foreground community and love in her new, rapturously received album

November 2020

  • The region between the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia is considered the showcase of Brazilian agribusiness, with a high productions of soy and corn for export.

    Animals farmed
    The Cerrado: how Brazil’s vital ‘water tank’ went from forest to soy fields

    The Cerrado savannah has become an agricultural powerhouse, but wildlife, forests and local communities have paid the price
  • Jair Bolsonaro at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on 10 November 2020.

    Felipe Neto: how a YouTuber became one of Jair Bolsonaro's loudest critics

    Neto’s outspokenness landed him on Time’s most influential people list, but also made him the target of a vicious fake news campaign
  • Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil

    Green groups denounce Brazil's 'sham' Amazon tour for foreign diplomats

    Campaigners say visit was ‘media propaganda’ as officials failed to stop at any devastated rainforest areas

October 2020

  • Land that is part of the planned F1 racetrack in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Rio F1 racetrack plans add fuel to Brazil deforestation row

  • A social distancing sign in Liverpool, England.

    Coronavirus live
    Coronavirus live news: Portugal reports 1,646 new cases – as it happened

  • Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is greeted by supporters in Coremas, Paraiba state, Brazil, September 17, 2020. Alan Santos/Brazilian Presidency/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

    'He became a hero': Bolsonaro sees popularity surge as Covid-19 spreads

  • A goldmining site located inside Baú indigenous lands, Brazil

    Goldmining having big impact on indigenous Amazon communities

September 2020

  • FILES-BRAZIL-GERMANY-AUTOMOBILE-CRIME-HISTORY-RIGHTS<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 03, 2003, Brazilian Volkswagen metalworkers chat as they wait for the start of a meeting in Sao Bernardo do Campo, 25 km from Sao Paulo, Brazil. - Volkswagen said on September 23, 2020 it had signed a deal with prosecutors to compensate former workers at the company’s Brazil unit for rights violations committed during the South American country’s military dictatorship. (Photo by MAURICIO LIMA / AFP) (Photo by MAURICIO LIMA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Volkswagen to pay compensation for collaborating with Brazil’s dictatorship

    Brazilian investigation found company was one of several that secretly worked with 1964-85 military government
  • Cattle, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul

    Animals farmed
    Brazil meat giant JBS pledges to axe suppliers linked to deforestation

    Campaigners welcome turnaround after pressure from investors but say 2025 deadline too long to resolve problems

    • United Nations general assembly: China rejects Trump's 'baseless' Covid accusations - as it happened

    • Covid warnings ring out as Latin America bids to return to normality

    • Brazilian wetlands fires started by humans and worsened by drought

August 2020

  • Smoke billows from a part of the Amazon rainforest reserve north of Sinop

    Brazil experiences worst start to Amazon fire season for 10 years

  • deforestation in the Amazon

    Animals farmed
    Tesco urged to ditch meat company over alleged links to Amazon deforestation

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