Four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest after a small plane crash have been found alive, President Gustavo Petro said Friday.

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    An absolute miracle of a story, and strap your seatbelts because it’s a long one! Especially the fact that their mom died in an air crash, and because of that the duty was on the older sister, who was just 12, to take care of her siblings (one of them just a year old) in the middle of an extremely dense and dangerous jungle. For over a month, mind you. Them surviving with just some dehydration and mosquito bites is nothing short of heroic.

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    1 year ago

    Reddit said these kids were dead weeks ago. You’re telling me that armchair experts were wrong?!

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    This incredible story shows how well nature can provide to you, if you know what you are doing…and shows how far away from nature we actually have strived, since most of the users here (myself included), would probably have died of diarrhea after having eaten the first plant.

    You can learn however and it’s fascinating how much edible stuff grows around you. My gf knows quite a bit about it and at every hike she chews on some seemingly random weed along the way.