{"id":68471,"date":"2024-06-03T19:18:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T00:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68471"},"modified":"2024-06-03T19:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T00:25:54","slug":"panama-prepares-to-evacuate-first-island-in-face-of-rising-sea-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68471","title":{"rendered":"Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GARDI SUGDUB, Panama (AP) \u2014 On a tiny island off Panama\u2019s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the sea and tourism will trade that next week for the mainland\u2019s solid ground.<\/p>\n

They go voluntarily \u2014 sort of.<\/p>\n

The Gunas of Gardi Sugdub are the first of 63 communities along Panama\u2019s Caribbean and Pacific coasts that government officials and scientists expect to be forced to relocate by rising sea levels in the coming decades.<\/p>\n

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A Guna Indigenous woman covers her head due to light rain on Gardi Sugdub Island, part of the San Blas archipelago off Panama\u2019s Caribbean coast, Saturday, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo\/Matias Delacroix)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On a recent day, the island\u2019s Indigenous residents rowed or sputtered off with outboard motors to fish. Children, some in uniforms and others in the colorful local textiles called \u201cmolas,\u201d chattered as they hustled through the warren of narrow dirt streets on their way to school.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a little sad, because we\u2019re going to leave behind the homes we\u2019ve known all our lives, the relationship with the sea, where we fish, where we bathe and where the tourists come, but the sea is sinking the island little by little,\u201d said Nad\u00edn Morales, 24, who prepared to move with her mother, uncle and boyfriend.<\/p>\n

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Child migration through Panama\u2019s dangerous Darien Gap is up 40%, UN report says<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Panama\u2019s next president says he\u2019ll try to shut down one of the world\u2019s busiest migration routes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Western Hemisphere nations pledge to continue coordinating response to historic regional migration<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels   GARDI SUGDUB, Panama (AP) \u2014 On a tiny island off Panama\u2019s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[33198,1001,34676,34675,1790,13634],"class_list":["post-68471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-ap-news","tag-flooding","tag-juan-zamorano","tag-matias-delacroix","tag-oceans","tag-panama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68473,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471\/revisions\/68473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}