Panama's Indigenous Villages Counted 200 Species to Fund Their Forest's Future

Four Wounaan and Emberá-Wounaan villages in Panama's Darién forest documented more than 200 species across 18,000 hectares of their land using camera traps and sound recorders — finding jaguars, tapirs and crested eagles, with at least 15 species threatened. The communities are using the data as a baseline to enter the biodiversity credit market, and hunting has already dropped as villagers post their own 'No Hunting' signs.