Panama News » Embera Wounaan News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Government: 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 » Government: 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 » Government: 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 » Government: Biden-Harris open border is destroying an indigenous tribe’s land and way of life
Members of the Embera-Wounnaan tribe taking migrants on a boat through the Darien Gap in Panama. Todd Bensman METETI, Panama — Not far from this small town, the 19,000-mile-long Pan-American Highway ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Government: 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 » Government: Colombian indigenous leaders flee to Panama after death threats
DARIÉN REGION, Panama, May 19 (UNHCR) - Fearing for their lives, seven leaders of Colombia's Wounaan indigenous group and their families, arrived by boat in Panama this week after fleeing further ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Government: 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 » Government: 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 ...