Indigenous Peoples Organizations

50 years ago our community was forcibly evicted from our homeland, The Chagos Islands, by the British Government to make way for a United States military base. We were exiled to the Seychelles and Mauritius where we have...

Our vision is to be an autonomous region with a sustainable economy, maintaining the shape and worldview of the Embera and Wounaan people in balance with mother earth and biodiversity.

Our mission is to be a leading organization in the unity, cohesion and defense of the territories, lands and natural resources of the Indigenous Peoples of Panama.

WCS's goal is to conserve the world's largest wild places in 14 priority regions, home to more than 50% of the world's biodiversity.