Rainforest in the Panama Canal Zone. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. As demonstrated by growing enthusiasm for conserving forests and the rise of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation ...

Time stands still in this village. Or does it? Parara Puru might be sheltered by the Panamanian rain forest, accessible only by dugout canoe from the Río Chagres, but the women who greet us as we ...

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), the Panama-based branch of the Smithsonian Institution, will offset its carbon dioxide emissions by working with an indigenous community to conserve ...

LONDON – Indigenous people in Panama are asking the United Nations to close down its global forestry program, REDD, in their country. REDD – Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest ...

Conservation & Society, Vol. 2, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS (July-December 2004), pp. 217-234 (18 pages) Non-timber forest products (NTFP) have been frequently studied as a means ...

In an extraordinary breakthrough, researchers studying Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal have uncovered fossilized ...

Since its isolation from the mainland more than 85 years ago, 65 bird species have disappeared from Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Because of these extinctions the island is often used as a model for ...

A volcanic eruption triggered a sediment flow that preserved a mangrove forest around what is now Barro Colorado Island, providing a better glimpse of the vegetation that existed in a highly changing ...