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: 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: In Panama’s Darién forest, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation
With illegal logging and agricultural expansion closing in on their lands, four Indigenous Wounaan and Emberá-Wounaan villages in Panama’s Darién forest started a biodiversity monitoring project to ...
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: Ancestral knowledge and modern tools come together for culturally safe childbirth in Panama’s Darién
In the remote communities of Darién and the Emberá-Wounaan Comarca, where travel depends on the river, women sustain life with courage and ancestral knowledge. They are traditional midwives, who ...
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 ...