The U.S. “border is actually here,” Panama’s president says, describing the jungle route many migrants take on their way to ...

Record numbers of migrants are braving the Darién Gap, a dense stretch of jungle straddling Panama and Colombia. More people have taken the trek so far this year than in all of 2022, Panamanian ...

A US-backed campaign between Panama and Colombia aims to stop migrants crossing the Darién Gap from South into Central America, as UN groups warn that the number of people attempting the journey ...

But until earlier this month, he had never been to the Darien Gap, a dangerous jungle route ... U.S. than experiencing face-to-face the pain of people,” saying he’d heard “horrific stories ...

Over half a million people migrated north across the Darien Gap in 2023, according to the United Nations. Nearly one in four people who made the journey last year were children.

When WWF began working with the Emberá-Wounaan indigenous people in the Darien— Panama’s largest forest remnant—in 2004, timber was extracted with little regard for the forest’s integrity orability to ...