Two young indigenous men rescued after almost four weeks lost in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil have been found and taken to hospital.
Glauco and Gleison Ferreira, ages eight and six, got lost trying to catch small birds in the jungle near Manicore, Amazonas state, on February 18.
A local tree cutter found them by chance on Tuesday.
They are expected to make a full recovery after being treated in hospital for malnutrition.
After the children disappeared, hundreds of residents spent weeks looking for them.
But lost during the Amazon rainy season, a time that makes walking and moving in the jungle even more difficult than usual, they were nowhere to be found.
Emergency services decided to call off the search on February 24, but locals continued to search for the children, according to local news outlet Amazônia Real.
Almost four weeks later, the children were found by a man cutting firewood 6 km (3.7 miles) from the town of Palmeira in the Lago Capanã protected land reserve where the children live with their parents, adds Amazônia Real.
One of the children screamed for help when he heard the local man hitting nearby trees. Following the calls, the man found the two boys lying on the rainforest floor, hungry and weak, with many skin abrasions.
According to local media, the two boys told their parents that they had not eaten anything while they were missing and had only drunk rainwater.
Following their discovery, Glauco and Gleison were sent to a regional hospital in Manicoré, before being airlifted to another hospital in Manaus on Thursday morning, reports Globo.
This is not the first time people have gotten lost in the Amazon jungle.
In January of last year, pilot Antonio Sena spent 36 days lost in one of the most remote parts of the Brazilian Amazon after his plane crashed.
In 2008, Amazônia Real reports that an 18-year-old indigenous man was lost for 50 days in a remote area of the Amazon after going hunting and died shortly after being found.
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