CARTI SUGTUPU, Panama — Alberto Lopez prepares breakfast with water lapping at his ankles. The day began with rain, and his ramshackle home on the Panamanian island of Carti Sugtupu was flooded, not for the first time.
Lopez is one of 1,200 Indigenous residents of the island being relocated to the mainland, as sea level rise due to global warming threatens to permanently devour their ancestral home.The community is the first in Panama to be displaced by climate change.Since Monday, residents have been packing and moving their belongings by boat to the Nuevo Carti settlement built for them by the government in the Guna Yala Indigenous region on Panama 's Caribbean coast.
'A brutal change'On Carti Sugtupu, the size of five football fields, Lopez and his fellow islanders lived in overcrowded conditions with few basic services.They use communal toilets with pieces of timber laid down as seats.The community lived off fishing, the harvesting of starchy crops like cassava and plantains, traditional textile production, and some tourism.
Islanders Relocated As Sea Level Rises
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