(Prensa.com) After meeting in Panama this year will be a call for an international tender to explore potential oil fields in the province of Darien, the reactions were not long in coming. The executive director of the National Association for the Conservation of Nature, Alida Spadafora, said that it is necessary to "analyze the impact of oil exploitation would have on the … [Read more...]
Captain Morgan Shipwreck Possibly Discovered off Panama
(Our Amazing Planet) Divers have found part of a shipwreck that could possibly belong to one of Captain Morgan's lost ships. Yes, that Captain Morgan, of Captain Morgan's Rum. As the story goes, Sir Henry Morgan and his fleet, believed to number five ships carrying 470 men, set out to take over a fort guarding the entrance to Panama City, Panama. Morgan was sailing on the … [Read more...]
Panama is the best natural-kept secret in the world
(San Diego Reader) Today, wedged between the old and the new, the natural and the modern, Panama is a country of both paradox and transition. With a biodiversity exceeding its more famous neighbor to the northwest – Costa Rica – and a natural landscape that varies from emerald rainforest to clouded mountains to marsh and bio-coastal oceans, the Panama experience is unique. … [Read more...]
Frog faces last stand in Panama against killer fungus
(Reuters) - The harlequin frog that hops and swims the rocky streams of a damp niche of Toad Mountain in eastern Panama's dense tropical jungle has probably been on Earth for around 3 million years. Within a few more years, the black-spotted orange-and-white amphibian with dazzling green-tinged eyes is likely to be wiped off the map by a deadly fungus, scientists … [Read more...]
Reforestation tax incentive in Panama needs reactivation
(Prensa.com) Due to the lack of incentives for reforestation, each year more and more hectares of the country that are engaged in livestock, agriculture and residential development projects, and fewer still are devoted to planting trees for commercial use. Environmental authorities and representatives of companies with reforestation projects believe that legislation is … [Read more...]