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Four indigenous children who went missing for six weeks in the Colombian Amazon jungle after a plane crash have reportedly been found alive. The siblings, Lesly, 13, Soleiny, nine, Tien Noriel, four, and baby Cristin who turned one while in the jungle, had been travelling in a light aircraft on May 1 when the plane is believed to have failed. The crash killed the children's mother Magdalena Mucutui Valencia, as well as the pilot and an indigenous leader. There were no signs of the youngsters when the aircraft's wreckage was recovered by the Colombian military - igniting a massive search...

“I didn’t want my friends to know that my mom’s a naked jungle woman eating tarantulas,” he says today. David’s mother, Yarima, is a member of the Yanomami tribe of Venezuela. In 1978, he (David's Father) was offered Yarima, who was then about 9 to 12. Good was 36. He saw no real problem. After David was born, Kenneth attempted to settle Yarima into modern American domesticity. In 1991, The whole family would return to the Amazon for a documentary. While there, Yarima told Kenneth she would not be going back to America.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian passenger plane with 155 people on board disappeared over the Amazon jungle on Friday after colliding with a small plane, the company and news reports said. Gol flight 1907, flying from the principle Amazon city of Manaus bound for the national capital Brasilia, disappeared after losing radar contact, the company said. The head of Brazil's airports authority, Infraero, said the Gol aircraft collided with another smaller plane, Globo news agency reported. The smaller plane, an executive jet, was able to land in a town called Serra do Cachimbo even though it suffered wing...

Police Begin Recovery of 26 Diamond Prospectors Found Dead in Amazon Indian Reservation Apr 18, 2004 By Stan Lehman/ Associated Press Writer SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - By helicopter and on foot, police entered the dense Amazon jungle Sunday to recover the bodies of 26 diamond prospectors slain in a mysterious clash with Indians in the remote area. The bodies of another 30 prospectors could still be inside the reservation in northwest Brazil, also victims of the attack that saw Cinta Larga Indians apparently massacre dozens of prospectors on April 7. Four days later, the first three bodies were found...

TAPAJÓS NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil — Viewed from the top of a tower 150 feet over an exuberant canopy of green, the vast Amazon jungle appears to be a neatly functioning organism. Trees in immeasurable numbers stretch away to the horizon here, their leaves open to the sun, eager to feed on the light that streams down from the sky and perforates the stifling tropical heat. Down on the ground, however, the longstanding debate about the Amazon's role in global climate change is intensifying. The Amazon is the largest tropical forest in the world — bigger than all of Europe, with...