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GARDI SUGDUB, Panama (AP) — On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Life: Threatened by rising seas, the first of Panama’s Indigenous islanders are forced to leave
Gardi Sugdub, Panama — On the densely packed island of Gardi Sugdub, off the coast of mainland Panama, colorful houses and wooden huts cover nearly the entire landscape almost up to the water’s edge.
News Panama » Guna Yala » Life: Year after exodus, silence fills Panama island threatened by sea
Streets once filled with children's laughter have fallen silent on a Panamanian island where almost all residents left a year ago due to the threat of the sea swallowing their homes. The evacuation of ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Life: Panama’s Gardí Sugdub Becomes a Climate Migration Case as Sea Levels Rise
The laughter of children running through the alleys of Gardí Sugdub is no longer heard. Everything changed a year ago when nearly all of the island’s Indigenous inhabitants fled this tiny Panamanian ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Life: Panama prepares to evacuate first island as sea levels rise
GARDI SUGDUB, Panama (AP) — On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up ...