Indigenous people and climate change: With the Guna when the oceans rise (4/4)
September 2023: Edilbertha's feet are in the water. Her house on the island of Gardi Sugdub, which is located off the coast of Panama, is flooded at every high tide. When she was a child, the flooding only happened in December and January ... now it starts as early as September.
The overcrowded island is regularly flooded – to the extent that 300 families have decided to leave. A new village is being built on the coast, and the Guna of Gardi Sugdub are preparing to leave their home island, which is sinking inexorably into the Atlantic Ocean.