In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

Mongabay
Sep 7, 2026, 11:10 am332 ptsTop
When Elsa Quiroz saw the spotted body of a jaguar appear on her son’s computer screen, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I’d only seen them in books,” she said. In late 2025, a camera captured the animal crossing a semi-abandoned path in Puerto Lara, a an Indigenous Wounaan village north of Panama’s…

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