(Pozoni.com) Panama is a marvellous little nation. At just 47,897 square km (29,762 square miles), Panama has the second largest import and redistribution centre in the world (due almost entirely to its canal which moves over 15,000 million-plus ton ships each year), boasts an international banking centre with more than 100 banks, the highest per capita income of its … [Read more...]
International versions of ‘Survivor’ are accused of damaging sites during filming in Panama
(KSPR.com) Reporting from Isla Contadora, Panama A pile of long wooden planks stood next to an 11-foot-high plate of dirty glass. Nearby, a beat-up bench didn't look as though it could support a toddler without collapsing. A crude wooden chair on tall legs leaned against a tree. Ropes were everywhere. And torches were scattered about like giant matchsticks. Atop the … [Read more...]
2,250 hectares in Panama destroyed by fires in 2010
(prensa.com) There were more than 2,250 hectares of forests, mangroves and pastures damaged by fires during 2010, national environmental authority Anam reported Thursday. "Some 86 fires occurred in Panama in 2010, most of them in the provinces of Coclé, Chiriquí, and the Panama City area," said Helvecia Bonilla, Anam's head of natural disasters. Forest and mangrove … [Read more...]
Guerrillas vs Police in Panama’s Darien Border
(prensa.com) There, in the High Tuira in Darien, are the last towns before reaching the border with Colombia. This is Yaviza, Boca de Cupe, Púcuro, The Balsal, El Naranjal Sobiaquirú, Maturgantí and Paya, among others, whose population is mainly indigenous, but are not within the Embera Wounaan, or on the side of the region Cémaco or that of Sambu, and not in the Kuna … [Read more...]
Panama environmental groups call for sustainable use of wetlands
(PanamaAmerica) The major environmental groups in Panama claimed today by the conservation and sustainable use of the 27 types of wetlands that exist in the country, on the occasion of World Wetlands Day. Representatives of the National Wetlands Committee, composed of state agencies and organizations relating to the environment, agreed that these habitats, as the basis for … [Read more...]