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Panama’s Indigenous Naso kingdom has spent decades fighting for land rights in the form of a comarca. But after finally getting one in 2020, struggles to demarcate and protect the land have become increasingly overwhelming.
The Naso lack the resources to establish the borders of their territory, which makes preventing farming and other drivers of deforestation extremely difficult.
By Maxwell Radwin
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/in-panama-an-indigenous-kingdom-fights-for-its-right-to-the-forest/
Mongabay Environmental NewsIn Panama, an Indigenous kingdom fights for its right to the forestCHANGUINOLA, Panama — Long before the Naso peoples in the northern jungles of Panama won the fight for their land, before a king came from far away to lead them against the invaders and cattle ranchers, the bureaucrats and corporations who wanted the territory to themselves — long before all of that, the Naso people […]