Visit an Embera Community in Gatun Lake – A unique experience

by:  Anne Kehmeier, Intern Luckily I had the chance to join an exciting EcoCircuitos tour to the indigenous village of the Embera Drua people to get to know their lifestyles and traditions. Accompanied by a great naturalist guide we started our trip with a ride through the Canal Zone and the nice Soberania National Park [...]

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25 years after extreme drought on BCI

from STRI A new article by Kenneth Feeley from Florida International University, with STRI’s Stuart J. Davies, Rolando Perez and Stephen P. Hubbell and former staff scientist Robin B. Foster (now at the Field Museum, Chicago), was recently published as the cover article of the journal Ecology (April). The article, entitled “Directional changes in the [...]

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A Tree Hugger, With a Twist

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/science/24vine.html?_r=1

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The Belly bottom of the Americas

Panama is a true biological bridge between North America and South America. The country has a concentration of animals and plants species among the richest in the world and is one of the countries in Central America with more biodiversity. This time, we will focus on one of its jewels of this country: the Barro [...]

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