Roads keep cutting through the rainforest, fragmenting the habitat and making it impossible for arboreal species like sloths, monkeys and silky anteaters to get from one side of the forest to the other. As their range is reduced, so too, are their populations, until one day, as they keep getting more and more squeezed from [...]

 Up until five years ago Boquete was a beautiful and quiet Panamanian coffee-producing mountain village that was studded with trees, streams, wildlife and other natural resources beyond what the eye could see, not to mention local Panamanian culture. But then North American and European retirees discovered the quaint hamlet and began arriving in countless droves. [...]

  It felt so good to be back at Campanario after spending a week in Panama. I had some highlights in Panama, as one always tends to have when traveling. But nothing in Panama can compare to the beauty and tranquility of Osa, where Campanario is nestled. This is the view that welcomed me after my [...]

 Look at all of these tourist brochures! The Panama Tourism Institute has announced that Panama will become the leader in Central American tourism by the year 2009. Translation: sand, sea and earth sacrificed for casinos, high-rise hotels, restaurants, bars, shopping malls and superhighways. I was shocked when I visited Panama in March to see cranes [...]

  After I bought some hand-crafted macrame ankle bracelets woven with beads and sea shells from the Kuna woman you see here, she allowed me to take her photograph. The Kuna Indians are a strongly-knit tribal society living on a chain of islands called San Blas in Panama. They still live much the same way as [...]