Rescuers had also been broadcasting a message recorded by the children’s grandmother, urging them not to move. The leaflets also included survival tips, and the military dropped food parcels and bottled water. Worried that the children would continue wandering and become ever more difficult to locate, the air force dumped 10,000 flyers into the forest with instructions in Spanish and the children’s own Indigenous language, telling them to stay put. The area is home to jaguars, snakes and other predators, as well as armed drug smuggling groups, but ongoing clues - footprints, a diaper, half-eaten fruit - led authorities to believe they were on the right track. A massive search by 160 soldiers and 70 Indigenous people with intimate knowledge of the jungle had been under way ever since for the youngsters, garnering global attention.
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