
Some 8,026 square kilometers, or 27 percent, of Panama’s 28,157 square-mile national territory is degraded. There are four critical zones: Cerro Punta in Chiriqui where agrochemicals are used, the Veraguas savannah, the Arco Seco on the Azuero Peninsula and the Ngöbe Bugle shire. More than a half a million people live in these zones, many...
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