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Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates

Episode three: the protector and the poacher

Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates

The Guardian

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Bruno Pereira has been considered one of the great Indigenous protectors of his generation. And this has made him an enemy of a man called Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as Pelado. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips reports on the story of these two men – Bruno and Pelado – and what happened when their paths collide

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:07.1

Hi, this is Michael Safi, host of the Guardians today in Focus podcast.

0:11.6

This is a new feed where you'll find all of the Guardian's award-winning investigative podcast series.

0:17.1

Today, we're bringing you the next episode of Missing in the Amazon, coming right after this.

0:22.5

And just a warning, this episode includes swearing and descriptions of violence.

0:30.0

Finlay Christie here. If you're looking for a coastal adventure, you can't be a road trip around the island of Ireland.

0:41.3

Home to the Causeway coastalal Route and the Wild Atlantic Way, you can experience both iconic journeys in one unforgettable trip.

0:46.3

From traditional music sessions in historic pubs to crazy adventures like C-Stat climbing,

0:52.3

there's something for everyone. Explore everything

0:55.6

Ireland has to offer at the Guardian.com forward slash tourism island. This message was paid

1:01.6

for by Tourism Island.

1:03.0

The message was paid for by Tourism Island. It was a warm afternoon at the end of the Javari Valley's rainy season,

1:19.4

April 2022, about two months before the disappearance of Dom and Bruno.

1:25.2

Bruno was going along the river with his colleague Tataku, who was driving their boat.

1:30.3

It was just the two of us, me and Bruno.

1:36.3

As they approached one of the villages along the riverbank, Bruno asked Tataku to get closer to the shore and to cut the engine engine so he could take a photograph that he wanted to send to Dom.

1:47.0

A photograph of the thick-set, dark-haired fisherman

1:52.0

who was standing outside his house,

1:54.0

looking right at them and holding a gun.

2:00.0

As they neared the village, the man raised the gun. As they near the village, the man raised the gun

2:02.6

and pulled the trigger.

2:08.6

It just missed.

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