As a reference/model for future brigaders - here's the preliminary itinerary for our winter brigade.
Here's some great background reading on about the Kunas and Kuna Yala, their semi-autonomous tribal region and the country's largest tract of rainforest.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuna_(people)
- http://thorup.com/cuna.html
- http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/21/panama.deforestation/index.html
- http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2001/6/panamaskuna.cfm
- http://www.eurac.edu/Focus/indigenous_americas/indigenous_kuna_yala.htm
Also! An excellent video of Alan Duke from CNN exploring Panama's Kuna Yala rainforest with Earth Train's Nathan Gray and Lider Sucre of Panama's Biodiversity Museum.
