His island drowned Panama communities

“If the island sinks, I will sink with him,” says Delfins Davies, his smile did not disappear for a second.

There is silence, throughout the floor of the small museum throughout his life, Documents the life of the site in Panama.

“Before you could hear the kids shouting … music everywhere, neighbors argued,” he says, “but now all sounds went.”

Its community lives in small small island in Gardi Sugdub, as a result of Panama as a result of climate change.

The government said that they have faced “danger” since sea levels, which scientists say, is likely to be island 2050. Year.

Last year in June, most residents were ignored by the wooden and tin houses for the continental houses in the continental house.

Changing some relocations as a model of other groups around the world, and their homes are threatened, but still has divided the community.

“My father, my brother, my sister, and my friends have disappeared,” says Delfino. “Sometimes families are crying children, asking friends where they went, he said.

The house is after home. About 1,000 people remain, while around 100 people stopped, some were not enough places in the new settlement. Others, like Delflines, are not completely convinced in the threat of climate change, or he just didn’t want to leave.

He said he wants to be near the ocean, where he can fisher. “Those who lose tradition lose their souls. Our cultural fund is in the islands,” he added.

The site has lived in Gardi Sugdub XIX. Century, and even in other archipelago islands, on the northern coast of Panama. They escaped from the peninsula to escape Spanish conquerors and then epidemics and conflicts with other indigenous groups.

They are known for clothes called “Molas”, decorated with colorful designs.

Today the gun live more than 40 other islands. Steve Paton, a scientist at the Institute of Tropical Research in Panama in the Smithsonian Institute, said that most of the most “certainty” is immersed in the end of the islands.

As the climate change heats the earth, sea levels go up the glaciers and ice sheets melt and the sea waters are heated.

Scientists have warned that hundreds of millions of people who lived in coastal areas around the world could be the risk of the end of the century.

In Gardi Sugdub, the waves shook during the rain during the rains, below the decks of the families sleep.

Mr. Paton says, “It is very difficult for the island 2050 based on the current and projected rates of the sea level.”

However, the first debates on relocation began more than a decade ago due to the growth of the population, not climate change.

The island is 400 m long and 150 meters wide. Some residents tend to have a more serious problem. But others, like Magdalena Martínez, fearing the rise of the sea:

“Every year, we saw that the tides were higher,” he explained. “We couldn’t cook in our kitchens and always flooded … So we said” We have to get out of here “.”

Magdalena was among those who struck in motor vessels and wooden canoes related to new homes.

“I brought my clothes and some kitchen utensils,” he explains. “You feel that you are leaving the parts of your life on the island.”

The new community, Isberyala, is – The weather allows for 15 minutes by boat, and then a five-minute route, from Gardi Sugdub. But it feels like another world.

Bored of the same white and yellow houses.

While the eyes of Magdalena shows the “small house”, Bianca and his dog lives a grandson of 14 years.

Each house has a small area of ​​land behind him – the island is not available on the island. I want to plant “Yucca, tomatoes, bananas, mangoes, and pineapple,” he sutzen.

“It’s pretty sad to leave a place for so long. You miss your friends, you lived the streets, so close to the sea,” he explains.

Isberyala built $ 15 million (£ 12 million) from the Panania government and the supplementary financing of the American Development Bank.

In the traditional style, he waits for a new meeting with branches and leaves, Tito López, Community Sayla – or Leader.

“My identity and my culture will not change, they are just the homes that have changed,” he said.

It is lying in a hammock and while Hamaka maintains its place in Kulturazi, “The heart of the site will be alive.”

When Gun dies, they have been a day to visit a day with your family and friends. Then it buries next to them.

At the new State School, students aged 12 to 13 are rehearing gun music and dances. The boys play the pan tubes on bright shirts while the girls shake the molacas.

The school was now closed to the school, and the students who remained there are students traveling to the new building with its computers, sports fields and library.

Magdalena says that Isberyla’s conditions are better than the island, which had only four hours of electricity, and had to seek water for drinking water on the peninsula river boat.

In Isberyala, the supply is constant, but water pumped from the surrounding wells – only ones only on days. The system has been distributed at times in a few days.

Also, there is still no health care. Another resident of Vallarino Yanisela, one afternoon, was well at his young daughter and had to arrange transport at night to see the doctor late at night.

The Panamanian authorities told BBC to build an Isberyla hospital for a decade of lack of funding a decade ago. But they said that this year he planned to revive the plan and evaluated how to create the space to move the neighbors from the island.

Yanisela is happy to go to the evening class in the new school, but still the island will return frequently.

“I’m not accustomed yet. And I miss my house,” he explains.

The community around the world will be “inspired” when the residents of Gardi Sugdub will face their situation, says Erica Bower, researcher on the Human Rights Climate Offset.

“We need to learn from the initial cases to understand what kind of success,” he said.

As the afternoon arrives, schools shout and the shouts of football, basketball and volleyball.

“I prefer this place because we have more space to play to the island,” Jerson eight-year-old, before you dive in football.

Magdalena sits with his grandson, teaching moles to sew.

“It’s hard for him, but I know he will learn. Our special ways cannot be lost,” says Magdalena.

He asked him what he misses about the island: “We were here all we were here.”