Climate change forces Panamanian tribe to leave island home

This month, around 300 families from Panama’s Guna tribe, are moving out of a small island off of Panama’s Caribbean coast, and settling in a village that the government has built for them on the mainland. They are Panama’s first community to relocate due to climate change, though many others could soon follow suit. Manuel Rueda reports from their new village in Panama.

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