How Biden administration plans to crackdown on colleges that overload graduates with student debt UN warns Earth's temperature likely to soar to record levels due to global warming and El Niño: 'Uncharted territory' What we know after US embassy convoy attacked by gunmen in southeast Nigeria, killing four The identities of the dead have not yet been released by government officials. The four children− ages 11 months, 4, 9 and 13 − are believed to have ventured into the Amazon rainforest where, according to Global outlet DW News, they "survived on fruits and built shelters using sticks and branches that were discovered by the rescue personnel."Īvianline Charters reported the children "were being transported by boat downriver and that they were all alive," CBS News reported Thursday. The plane, a Cessna 206, along with the bodies of the adults, were found Monday in a forest, officials said. Una alegría para el país.- Gustavo Petro Engine failureĪccording to a preliminary investigation by officials, Avianline Charters Flight HK 280, was carrying seven people between Araracuara in Amazonas province and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare, when it apparently suffered an engine failure before it went down, killing the pilot, another adult and the children's mother. Photos released by the Colombian army, which deployed more than 100 soldiers and search dogs to locate the children, show hair ties, scissors and a baby bottle found Wednesday on the jungle forest floor in a rural area of the municipality of Solano.ĭespués de arduas labores de búsqueda de nuestras Fuerzas Militares, hemos encontrado con vida a los 4 niños que habían desaparecido por el accidente aéreo en Guaviare. The agency said Wednesday the four boys and girls had "been found alive and that they are also in good health," and their priority is now reuniting the children with their families.Īs of Thursday morning, officials had not released the location where the children were discovered or the identities of the adults who died. The Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) said the May 1 crash, which claimed the lives of three adults, took place on the border between Caquetá and Guaviare in the southern central region of the country, about 250 miles south of the country's capital of Bogota. "After arduous search efforts by our Military Forces, we have found alive the 4 children who had disappeared due to the plane crash," President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday, declaring "joy for the country." “We’re at a moment of great peril but also great possibilities, serious possibilities,” Biden told the Times.Update: Colombian President Guastavo Petro now says the family welfare institute's report on children surviving the crash cannot be confirmed and the search is ongoing.Ī baby is among four children found alive in the Amazon forest more than two weeks after surviving a plane crash that killed their mother and two other people, Colombian leaders confirmed Thursday. The next step is convincing and getting approval from Congress, which has been sometimes reticent to offer similar aid. The Amazon money pledged by Biden follows the $1 billion he promised to the Green Climate Fund to help developing countries change to cleaner technology and improve climate resiliency, the Times reports. However, since the research was based on satellite images, Silva told Reuter he was hesitant to call the data evidence a trend reversal, as it could be partly due to cloud cover. “It is positive to see such a relevant drop in January,” the World Wildlife Fund’s Brazil conservation specialist, Daniel Silva, said to Reuters. Reuters reported that tree-cutting in Brazil was curbed in January by about 61%, as compared to the same time period in 2022. He took office again in January after previously holding the presidency from 2003-2010. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has pushed for policies to reduce deforestation. The results can be terrible, reducing or even eliminating part of the forest’s ability to filter our air, according to the Times.įortunately, the Brazilian government is stepping to the plate, as well. The trees are often cut to make room for farms and other human development. Some of the trees in the rainforest are up to 1,000 years old. The $500 million would be placed with the Amazon Fund, which invests in projects to save the trees in the Brazilian Amazon.
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