island communities

"If the island sinks, I will sink with it," Delfino Davies says, his smile unwavering. But the silence that surrounds him on Gardi Sugdub, his ancestral home, speaks volumes. "Before, you could hear children shouting… music everywhere, neighbors arguing," he recalls. "But now all the sounds have gone." His community, the Guna, are the first in Panama to be displaced by the … [Read more...] about ‘We left pieces of our life behind’: Indigenous group flees drowning island