Bruno da Cunha Araújo Pereira (15 August 1980 – 5 June 2022)[1] was a Brazilian indigenist and career employee of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI).
[1] After passing the exam, he started studying journalism at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in 2000, but left the course in 2003, deciding that his future lay in the country's forests.
However, after pressure from ruralist sectors linked to the Jair Bolsonaro government, he was removed from his post in October of that year by Sergio Moro then executive secretary at the Ministry of Justice, Luiz Pontel.
Pereira claimed that the invaders felt more at ease as a result of the permissiveness of the public authorities, and surveillance has undergone a continuous weakening process.
[10] Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips received death threats for helping to protect Indigenous people of Amazonas from illegal drug traffickers, miners, loggers, and hunters.