An Evening with Beto Marubo

Join Beto Marubo, Indigenous leader from the Javari Valley in the Brazilian Amazon, for a powerful discussion on defending the rainforest and protecting the territories of uncontacted peoples.

Beto's visit to the UK coincides with a new global report by Survival International on uncontacted Indigenous peoples around the world, and the paperback launch of How to Save the Amazon by Dom Phillips.

Four years ago, UK journalist Dom Phillips accompanied the Brazilian expert in Indigenous affairs, Bruno Pereira, on a research trip to the Javari region to learn about indigenous defenders of the Amazon. They were both shot dead in a killing that had reverberations around the world, drawing heightened international attention to the huge danger faced by those trying to protect the Amazon.

Beto will be joined by Dom Phillips’ widow, Alessandra Sampaio, and Fiona Watson from Survival International. Together, they will speak about developments in the Javari Valley following the deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, the ongoing investigation, and the growing threats facing uncontacted Indigenous peoples in the region.

The discussion will be moderated by Ali Rocha, from Brazil Matters.

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Beto Marubo was born in the Javari Valley. Since early 2018 he has represented the Indigenous peoples of the Javari in their dealings with state institutions. For more than two decades, he has also worked as a coordinator of the ethno-environmental protection programmes designed to protect peoples who live in voluntary isolation.

Alessandra Sampaio is Director of the Dom Phillips Institute which she established to support education about the Amazon after her husband, the UK journalist Dom Phillips, was killed while researching his book How To Save The Amazon.

Fiona Watson is Research and Advocacy Director at Survival International, the global movement for Indigenous peoples' rights. She has been with Survival since 1990 and worked on many campaigns for Indigenous peoples’ rights, notably with the Yanomami, Guarani, Awá and Indigenous peoples of the Javari Valley in Brazil. She has visited many indigenous communities in South America and is a specialist on uncontacted peoples in the Amazon.

Ali Rocha is a news and documentary producer, human-rights activist, and the director of Brazil Matters, a platform working to raise international awareness of Brazil’s environmental, social, and political issues. Brazil Matters amplifies the voices and struggles of Women, Workers, Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ communities and supports activists and grassroots movements resisting state violence and social and environmental injustice in Brazil.

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