The place where they went missing is the primary access route to and from the Vale do Javari, Brazil's second-largest Indigenous territory that is bigger than Maine, and where several thousand Indigenous people live in dozens of villages. The pair disappeared while returning from a two-day trip to the Jaburu Lake region, where Phillips interviewed local Indigenous people, Univaja said. Phillips, who has reported from Brazil for more than a decade, has been working on a book about preservation of the Amazon with support from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, which gave him a yearlong fellowship for environmental reporting that ran through January. On Saturday, while they were camped out, two men traveled by river to the Indigenous territory's boundary and brandished a firearm at a Unijava patrol, the association's president, Paulo Marubo, told The Associated Press. Univaja said the two had been threatened during their reporting trip.

He has received a stream of threats from illegal fishermen and poachers, and usually carries a gun. He oversaw the agency's regional office and the coordination of isolated Indigenous groups before going on his current leave. Pereira is one of the Brazilian Indigenous affairs agency's most experienced employees operating in the Vale do Javari area. The pair was returning by boat from the Vale do Javari and bound for the city of Atalaia do Norte, about an hour away, but never showed up. RIO DE JANEIRO - A British journalist and an Indigenous affairs official are still missing in a remote part of Brazil's Amazon as authorities say they are expanding search efforts in the area, which has seen violent conflicts between fishermen, poachers and government agents.Дom Phillips, who has been a regular contributor to the British newspaper the Guardian, and Bruno AraГєjo Pereira were last seen early Sunday in the Sao Rafael community, reported the Univaja association of people in the Vale do Javari Indigenous territory, for which Pereira has been an adviser. British journalist Dom Phillips, right, and a Yanomami Indigenous man walk in Maloca Papiu village, Roraima state, Brazil, in Nov.

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