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How Indigenous kids survived forty days in Colombia's jungle after a plane crash

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  1. chocobean
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    This is amazing! I was thinking the survivors were older teens but WOW she had an 11 month old baby to care for!! I wouldn't have survived. I'm so glad their community taught them how to live with...

    This is amazing!

    The children — ages 13, 9, and 4 plus an 11-month-old baby — survived a deadly plane crash that killed their mother.

    I was thinking the survivors were older teens but WOW she had an 11 month old baby to care for!! I wouldn't have survived. I'm so glad their community taught them how to live with the jungle.

    May their mother's memory be eternal. It must have been very sad to see their mother did not survive the crash, and having to flee predators as well as guerila fighters.

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    ispotato
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    I read this neat article couple days ago from Naked Capitalism that talks a bit about how the Amazon forest came to have so much edible food available for them. On top of the survival skills, many...

    I read this neat article couple days ago from Naked Capitalism that talks a bit about how the Amazon forest came to have so much edible food available for them. On top of the survival skills, many years of cultivation of the forest - while keeping it very much still a forest, not clear cutting - made it into something that serves humans and nature.

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    1. chocobean
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      amazing: They've literally built up a food forest.

      amazing:

      In Ka’apor-managed forests, according the Balée’s plant inventories, almost half of the ecologically important species are those used by humans for food. In similar forests that have not recently been managed, the figure is only 20 percent.

      They've literally built up a food forest.

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