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Official figures show deforestation fell 26% in Colombian Amazon last year and 29% nationwide

Countries that border the Amazon rainforest need to have a bigger voice in the international climate debate and greater representation on global environmental forums, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.

The wooden "sun masks," which date back to the mid-15th century, were handed over at the presidential palace during a visit to Berlin by Colombian President Gustavo Petro

Wooden artefacts dating from 15th century and bought from indigenous people were treated with pesticides while in museum

Editorial: Feats of endurance such as this provoke wonder for what they reveal about what it means to be human

Germany has handed over to Colombia two masks made by the Indigenous Kogi people that had been in a Berlin museum’s collection for more than a century

News of the miracle rescue of four children stranded in the Amazon rainforest brought relief to millions following the case. But their challenges continue as they reel from the physical and psychological aftermath of the survival - and a legal battle for their custody. Andrea Blanco reports

When the four young kids were found alive in the Amazon after more than a month, the news attracted global attention. Everyone is curious to know about these miracle kids, whom the Colombian President Gustavo Petro refers to as “children of the jungle".

‘They are children of the jungle, and now they are also children of Colombia,’ president says