Four children who disappeared in the Colombian jungle were found alive after forty days. These children were on board the plane that crashed in the Amazon jungle.

For many people, this issue is nothing short of a miracle, while some consider it part of Jungle life.

Four indigenous Children from southeastern Colombia spent forty days after a plane crash in one of the most remote, dense and inaccessible jungles in the world.

On May 1, 2023, these children were traveling in a small plane with their mother and two other adults. This plane crashed in the jungle and all the adults on board were killed.

Four children aged 14, nine, four and one year old survived the accident and were left alone in the dense Forest.

After a long search operation on Friday, the army has discovered them from inside the forest. On Saturday he was taken to the capital, Bogotá, where he is being treated at a military hospital.

The stories of this ‘miracle’, ‘rescue operation’ and the bravery of these children are told in the Colombian media.

The government, the people of the tribal community and the army worked together for the search operation carried out in this area that stretches over 20 thousand kilometers. Apart from this, 150 uniformed employees from this area and 100 people from the tribal community were also part of the search team.

The search team recorded a message from their grandmother Fatima to search for the children, which was carried out by helicopters passing over the area during the search of the area. This message was also narrated in the jungle through small speakers.

This message was recorded in Spanish and in the aboriginal language.

In the message, the children’s grandmother said: “Help me, it’s your grandmother speaking. You understand me, don’t you? Stop where you are. People are looking for you. Listen to my voice and stay where you are so they can find you.”

Fatima told the news website France 24 that “my daughter is separated from me, now nobody will call me mother. That’s why I want to find my grandchildren.”

During the search, a bottle of milk was found near a hut. It is speculated that this hut must have been built by the children.

Last Friday, a footprint was found in one location. It is believed that it belonged to a child only.

Miguel Romario from the Jirijiri tribal community in Putumayo, and several members of the children’s families, believe that they are sure that the children know how to live in the forest, nothing will happen to them.

During the search, Miguel Romario says: “We are assuming that the children are okay, that Mother Nature is protecting her people inside. We believe that she will protect them and is also giving them the things they need to survive.”

expert in aboriginal communities alex rufino I think the kind of language that is used in media reports shows how little society in general knows about tribal society.

Says Alex: “The children weren’t lost in the forest, they were in their natural environment. The forest was taking care of them and they had the age-old wisdom of tribal society that lived with nature for centuries.”

Alex Rufino, a professor and photographer from the National University, acknowledges that during these forty days the lives of the children were in grave danger. Not only did they lack food, but other forest animals could also prove fatal to them.

But he also says that he had a kind of relationship with the forest and that “the forest was protecting him.”

Alex Rufino talks to BBC Mundo about the incident after teaching students about the Amazon jungle. He said that he was following the media coverage of the incident with interest. We got to know the answers to some questions from him.

Children learn a lot from their relatives directly or indirectly. When they go hunting or go to the forest to look for food, it is necessary to watch them carefully. During this, children are learning what may and may not work for them.

Many times they get sick after eating things they shouldn’t eat. But the elders in the family tell them what to eat and what not.

Every tree, every insect, every animal in the forest gives information about where we are. What is available here and what are the dangers here. Children in tribal society know how to read these signs and what they mean.

Apart from their own education, they also receive help from animals. For example, the eating habits of monkeys are similar to those of humans. By observing which fruits monkeys eat, one can know which fruits are worth eating. There is a coexistence between us and the monkeys. The monkeys sometimes drop fruits from the tree that you can eat. The challenge is to follow the jumps and jumps of the monkeys in the jungle because sometimes they are very fast.

The monkeys should not be imitated but followed in search of food. The monkeys know where the food is in the jungle. If the monkeys are breaking a branch, it can also be a sign of danger. For example, there may be a jaguar or a python in the jungle.

We can protect ourselves by building a relationship with the monkeys in the forest.

No one can live in one place in the jungle. You think in such a way that you automatically start walking. Because in the jungle we look for those things to be able to spend the night in a better way.

Alex tells about the forest in which the children were trapped, which is a very dark and very dense forest. There are also the largest trees in the region. This is an area where human access is so far very limited and has not been fully explored. The villages inside are small and are not inside the forest but on the banks of the river.

It is a very cold, humid area and full of mosquitoes. It is dangerous because it is the area of ​​Jaguar, Anaconda and more poisonous snakes found in America.

But you have to see them not with fear but with respect. There is some spirituality in every inch of the forest land that you cannot ignore. You are in a dialogue with this place at all times. If you do not do this, your health and life may be at risk.

Each thing, each tree has its own existence from which one thing or another can be learned. This is a relationship such that one can get medicine, food and water in exchange. For example, when you sleep at night, the tree plays the role of your protector. They give you shelter, they hug you.

According to Alex, the children must have found a lot of wet leaves and small streams of water, but their water may well have been unfit to drink.

But there are leaves that purify water and some that are poisonous. You have to take them in a certain way, wash them in a certain way and they are used to collect water.

He must have adopted the technique of using special leaves to clean his body. By doing this, the fatal attack of mosquitoes and insects can be stopped.

It may have eaten insects to fill its stomach. Everything from an insect to a bird is eaten in the forest. What the jaguar leaves after hunting is also a good option.

I feel like they must have eaten the fruits. Some sweet red colored seeds are also available here in large quantities. Due to this, there is no shortage of water in the body, and energy is also available.

In the jungle you don’t even realize that your weight is decreasing. You always feel that you are fine. It was only when you met strangers that you felt you were in danger. You never feel like you are going to die, you just focus on moving on.

Alex thinks this is very common. On average, such a case comes to light every ten days when a group of people in the forest is still floating on the river. Because they go out to look for food or hunt and keep moving forward.

It doesn’t happen that they get lost, because they are in their own environment. But they move forward and they don’t know if they will be able to return home or not. This happens because they do not know the way.

Many people consider it a miracle, but Alex has a different opinion. They say this is a world where everything is for sale. They say that the mother who took care of these children in the jungle is the jungle itself. It is difficult for today’s society to understand, but under the pretext of this incident, it has become necessary to understand.

Alex says that children who spend time in the forest will not be able to forget the lessons learned in these forty days throughout their lives. When the plane crashed, the children were searched for in the woods.

But the children have lived in the forest for centuries, they have been living, no one comes to see how they live. Alex believes that the jungle was not a threat to these children, but that the jungle was keeping them alive.