Panama News » Embera Wounaan News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Commerce: Migrant Wave Disrupts Life in Panama’s Darién Gap
The roadless Darién Gap was for centuries an almost impenetrable and pristine strip of land connecting what is now Panama and Colombia, inhabited by the indigenous Emberá and Wounaan people. Now, tens ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Commerce: In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation
When Elsa Quiroz saw the spotted body of a jaguar appear on her son’s computer screen, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I’d only seen them in books,” she said. In late 2025, a camera captured the ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Commerce: A Rich Heritage. An Even Brighter Future.
With a culture that is rich in tradition and heritage, Panama’s Emberá-Wounaan are a beautiful and unique people. Dwelling among the Darien rainforest, Panama’s largest forest remnant, these ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Commerce: Masses of Migrants Overwhelm Panama’s Darién Gap
CANAÁN, Panama—When thunder claps in this dense jungle, indigenous people living along the banks of once-pristine rivers now brace for floods that wash up mountains of sodden garbage and at times, the ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Commerce: Panama’s indigenous groups take land fight to the international stage
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Wounaan and Embera indigenous communities occupying four territories in eastern Panama are taking their nearly five-year land-titling battle with ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Commerce: Biden-Harris open border is destroying an indigenous tribe’s land and way of life
METETI, Panama — Not far from this small town, the 19,000-mile-long Pan-American Highway ends at a wall of jungle — the Darien Gap, a notorious wilderness that stretches from Colombia into Panama. In ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Commerce: Creating a New Way Forward
When WWF began working with the Emberá-Wounaan indigenous people in the Darien— Panama’s largest forest remnant—in 2004, timber was extracted with little regard for the forest’s integrity orability to ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Commerce: Experience Panama’s Ancestral Indigenous Cultures
Learn about this Central American country’s ancestral Indigenous culture, and take in their spiritual connection to nature With so many seismic changes occurring all around us today, perhaps now is ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Commerce: How Indigenous Tribes Are Fighting the Drug Cartels
Over the past few years, strangers have begun approaching youngsters in the Embera-Wounaan, an indigenous tribe in Panama, with an uncanny request. Carry a bag of rice across the jungle for us, and ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Commerce: Wounaan Indigenous people have opposed illegal rosewood logging and centuries of exploitation with wisdom and beauty
For millennia, the Wounaan people, who live in parts of what is now Panama and Colombia, have hewn and sculpted various woods. Cocobolo rosewood, Dalbergia retusa, is particularly favored for carving ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Commerce: Wounaan Indigenous people have opposed illegal rosewood logging and centuries of exploitation with wisdom and beauty
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Julie Velásquez Runk, Wake Forest University; Smithsonian Institution; University of ...