Two young indigenous boys have been rescued after going missing in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest for four weeks.
Glauco and Gleison Ferreira, eight and six, were found and taken to hospital where they are being treated for malnourishment.
They got lost trying to catch small birds in the jungle near Manicoré, Amazonas state, on February 18.
Now the boys are expected to make a full recovery after a local tree cutter found them by chance on March 15.
Hundreds of locals launched a search party to trace the duo and spent weeks looking for them after their disappearance.
But the two youngers had gone missing during the Amazon’s rainy season which makes venturing for the jungle more difficult than usual.
Emergency services pulled the plug on the search on February 24 .
However, residents continued to search for the boys, according to local media outlet Amazônia Real.
They were found on Tuesday by a man cutting wood 3.7 miles from the village of Palmeira in the Lago Capanã protected land reserve where the boys live, reports said.
One of them little boys was heard shouting for help.
They were discovered lying on the rainforest floor, hungry and weak, with many skin abrasions.
The boys said they had eaten nothing while they were lost and the pair survived by drinking rainwater, according to local media.
Both of the children were sent to a hospital in Manicoré before being transported by helicopter to another hospital in Manaus on Thursday morning, Globo reports.
Getting lost in the vast Amazon rainforest is not a rare occurrence.
In January last year, pilot Antonio Sena spent 36 days in one of the Amazon’s most remote parts after his aircraft crashed.
In 2008, Amazônia Real reported an indigenous 18-year-old was lost for 50 days after going hunting. He died shortly after being rescued.
