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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 » Trade: 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 » Trade: 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 » Trade: 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 » Trade: Wounaan Indigenous People Have Opposed Illegal Rosewood Logging And Centuries Of Exploitation With Wisdom And Beauty
(MENAFN- The Conversation) Leer en español. 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 ...
News Panama » Embera-Wounaan » Trade: 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 » Trade: 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 » Trade: 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 ...