Earlier this year, families from the Indigenous Guna people on the tiny island of Gardi Sugdub became the first to undergo a climate-related relocation by the Panamanian government because of the threat of rising sea levels. Hundreds of residents moved to Isber Yala, a new town built on the mainland.
A man trudges through a flooded street in Gardi Sugdub, a small island in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Panama
Atilio Martinez, a Guna historian and member of the Congress of Guna, stands on a small pier behind his home in Gardi Sugdub. It is high tide, and seawater is flooding the pathA flooded side street at high tide. The population of Gardi Sugdub is the first in Panama to undergo a climate-related relocation.
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