Isolated communities in the Darién Gap are sounding the alarm over polluted rivers and cultural erosion after a surge in migrants crossing their ancestral lands
Discarded clothes and plastic, as well as human waste, are polluting rivers in the Darién Gap, which are used by Indigenous groups to drink and wash.Discarded clothes and plastic, as well as human waste, are polluting rivers in the Darién Gap, which are used by Indigenous groups to drink and wash.
When it rains, the once pristine stony banks of the Turquesa River in Nueva Vigía are now lined with discarded drinks cans, T-shirts and plastic food containers, local people report. In reality, 8,000 people are living there, whose rivers are getting polluted by the shit of half a million people “People have turned a blind eye to this because they think it’s some place over there where no one lives. In reality, 8,000 people are living there, whose rivers are getting polluted by the shit of half a million people,” says Global Conservation’s founder, Jeff Morgan. “The trash can be cleaned up, but the rivers might not come back, or take decades to restore.
“The ideal would be that they take trash with them and deposit it at the end, but realistically, we are talking about a place that even children and elderly people are left behind,” Ruiz says.A group of people, mostly Venezuelans, travel through the Darién Gap from Colombia into Panama, hoping to reach the US, October 2022.
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