Panama News » Embera Wounaan News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Politics: 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 » Politics: 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 » Politics: 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.) For millennia, the Wounaan people, who live in parts of what is now Panama and ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Politics: 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 » Politics: 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 ...