The journalist was travelling with a Brazilian indigenous expert in Brazil when they went missing.
A British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert have gone missing in a remote area of the Amazon rainforest.
He was travelling the area with Bruno Pereira while researching a book. The two had received threats days before, say indigenous groups.Mr Phillips, 57, has written extensively on the Amazon and has lived in Brazil for over a decade. The two had been in the district for about a week and had travelled by boat to Jaburu lake on Friday.
According to UNIVAJA, the men had received threats in the days before their disappearance, but no more detail was given as to the nature of the threats."We implore the Brazilian authorities to send the national guard, federal police and all the powers at their disposal to find our cherished Dom," Mr Phillips's sister's partner, Paul Sherwood, wrote on Twitter.
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