Mongabay

REDD+ versus indigenous people? Why a tribe in Panama rejected pay for their carbon-rich forests

If you liked this story, share it with other people. There isn’t a word or phrase in the Kuna language for “carbon trading,” and much less for something as complex as REDD+. Standing for Reducing ...
PBS

Kuna Indians

Kuna Yala, the indigenous name for Kuna land, is a narrow strip of coastline that stretches about 250 miles along Panama's Caribbean coast and borders Colombia. The Kuna Indians live mainly on the San ...
The Aspen Times

Paul Andersen: The West’s dire effects on the Kuna coconut currency

Money doesn’t grow on trees, unless you’re a Kuna Yala. For these traditional Indians of the Caribbean coast of Panama, money grows in the form of coconuts, which they harvest for barter. If you have ...
insider.si.edu

Kuna Yala: Tradition and Climate Change - Ammar daed, Neg Billi Guadanigi

Before the 1980s, coral reefs were considered relatively stable and healthy in Kuna-Yala, Caribbean Panama. However, during the 1980s, several natural disturbances changed the reef's community ...
UNHCR

Indigenous Kuna children and Colombian refugees live and study together in Panama

PUERTO OBALDIA, Panama, December 29 (UNHCR) - On the southern tip of Panama's Caribbean coast in the town of Puerto Obaldia, local indigenous Kuna schoolchildren are living with Colombian refugees and ...