Money doesn’t grow on trees, unless you’re a Kuna Yala. For these traditional Indians of the Caribbean coast of Panama, money grows in the form of coconuts, which they harvest for barter. If you have ...

Kuna Yala, the indigenous name for Kuna land, is a narrow strip of coastline that stretches about 250 miles along Panama's Caribbean coast and borders Colombia. The Kuna Indians live mainly on the San ...

PUERTO OBALDIA, Panama, December 29 (UNHCR) - On the southern tip of Panama's Caribbean coast in the town of Puerto Obaldia, local indigenous Kuna schoolchildren are living with Colombian refugees and ...

Before the 1980s, coral reefs were considered relatively stable and healthy in Kuna-Yala, Caribbean Panama. However, during the 1980s, several natural disturbances changed the reef's community ...

The Kuna, an indigenous group in Panama, set aside an area of the Comarca, their autonomous reserve, for protection of its biodiversity. This project, called PEMASKY, attracted the attention of the ...

In an 11th-grade classroom on this tropical island, the students have the deeply bronzed skin and black hair typical of ethnic Kuna people. That is, all except one: Mayli Gonzalez looks like she’s ...