What is the Bruno and Dom project?

Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous expert, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist and Observer and Guardian contributor, were killed on the Amazon’s

Itaquaí River last June while returning from the remote Javari Valley region.

The attack prompted an international outcry and highlighted the growing threat to the Amazon from logging, poaching, mining and cattle ranching

A year on, the Observer and Guardian have joined 15 international news organisations to investigate organised crime and resource extraction in the Brazilian Amazon. The initiative is coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based nonprofit organisation whose mission is to continue the work of reporters who are threatened, censored or killed in their work. Our goal is to honour Bruno and Dom, to highlight the importance of the Amazon and its people, and to find ways to save the Amazon.