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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 » Life: 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 » Life: Migrants enriched this Indigenous village in Panama. What happens now that they're gone?
BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama — No roads lead to this tiny Indigenous community deep in the jungle of the Darién Gap, where a tsunami of U.S.-bound migrants has abruptly slowed to a trickle. The only way to ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Life: Biden-Harris border policies wreak havoc on indigenous tribe, says expert: ‘Pushed aside and destroyed’
The Biden administration’s border policies have helped contribute to the destruction of indigenous tribes in Central and South America, according to one expert. Panama’s indigenous Embera-Wounnaan ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Life: 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 » Life: 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 » Life: Migrants enriched this Indigenous village in Panama. What happens now that they're gone?
Migration through Panama's Darién Gap has plummeted by 98% due to immigration crackdowns in Panama and the United States. The Indigenous village of Bajo Chiquito, a former way station for migrants, ...