The Indigenous community in Bogota held a ceremony to thank rescuers who found four children alive 40 days after their plane crashed in the Amazon jungle. Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti has more from Bogota, Colombia. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Colombia #PlaneCrash
Four children found alive after 40 days in the Colombian jungle have been reunited with their relatives. The eldest sibling is 13, the youngest, just one year old. Colombian President Gustavo Petro said they survived like ‘children of the jungle’. Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti reports from Bogota, where the youngsters are recovering in hospital. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Clomboa #ColombiaPlaneCrash #Reunion
Rainforests in central Africa are rapidly disappearing due to logging and mining. It is one of the issues on the agenda at the One Forest Summit, under way in Gabon. The timber from these rainforests, now used to make furniture for people in wealthier countries, was once part of what has been called the planet’s “other lung” and a precious natural barrier to climate change. Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reports from Pande in Cameroon’s Congo River Basin, where he met the Indigenous Pygmy people who call the forest home. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our […]
The rate of deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose for the fourth consecutive month in June. And there are serious concerns that it would only get worse with more drought and forest fires feared. Al Jazeera’s Sara Khairat has this report. – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/ – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/ – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/