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Pavel's world: Pavel and Yvonne explore Panama's historic sites and Indigenous culture

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Pavel and Yvonne returned to the studio this week to share highlights from their recent trip to Panama City, where they spent more than a week attending a music festival and ...
The New Yorker

An Indigenous Community’s Spiritual Haunting

Mesa’s photo series, titled “Jaidë,” or “House of Spirits,” conjures the mystical outlook of the women he met, using an ethereal yellow-and-orange palette to portray the grieving. An overexposed photo ...
Variety

Colombia’s Displaced Communities Take Center Stage in Juan Andrés Arango’s ‘Where the River Begins’

Colombian-Canadian filmmaker Juan Andrés Arango returns to features with “Where the River Begins,” a Colombian-set drama that follows a young, widowed Emberá mother and her daughter as they leave a ...
University of Louisville Cardinal

Turning Dreams into Destinations: The study abroad experience at U of L

With study, research, internship and service-learning opportunities around the world, the University of Louisville’s Office of Education Abroad may be the right spot for students looking to enhance ...
Pulitzer Center

First, the Frogs Died. Then People Got Sick.

An emerging area of research is uncovering surprising links between nature and human health. ALTOS DE CAMPANA NATIONAL PARK, Panama — Brian Gratwicke’s lunch box was full of frogs. Kneeling on the ...
Pulitzer Center

Migrants Enriched This Indigenous Village in Panama. What Happens Now That They’re Gone?

Migration through Panama's Darién Gap has plummeted by 98% due to immigration crackdowns in Panama and the United States. The Indigenous village of Bajo Chiquito, a former way station for migrants, ...
Mena FN

Deep Connection Between Panama's Emberá People And NASA's First Crewed Missions To The Moon -

(MENAFN- Newsroom Panama) Hacking a path through dense jungle with a machete. Capturing and eating iguanas. Sleeping in hammocks above the jungle floor to avoid venomous insect bites. It may sound ...
USA Today

A deep conection between Panama's Emberá people and NASA’s first crewed missions to the Moon

Chief Zarco’s daughter Natalia Sarco works as an ecologist and bird-watching guide in Panama City’s Metropolitan National Park. The former Canal Zone’s 573-acre park was a site of the Albrook survival ...
UNDP

Guardians of the Forests: An indigenous path towards more conscious food systems

In the remote province of Darién, on the border between Panama and Colombia—home to some of the last standing tropical forests in Central America—Indigenous communities are leading powerful, homegrown ...
Internet Society

The Power of Volunteers: Connecting an Indigenous Community in Panama

The Internet Society Panama Chapter had a plan. They would build the country’s first community network and bring the Internet to one of the country’s many Indigenous communities that were still ...
UNDP

Ancestral Recipes for the Future: Listening to the Wisdom of Embera communities in the Darién, Panama

On the launch of the “Traditional Wisdom for Food Systems Transformation” report, an energy of reverence and purpose filled the air. The report, co-created by the Conscious Food Systems Alliance ...