Nature & Wildlife
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose A sloth mom and young in Panama. Photographer Lisa Wakida got this awesome shot in Bastimentos Island, Bocas Del Toro in Panama. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Travel Tales
“Vamanos, mujeres!” That was the insistent invitation from a large Cuna mamacita brandishing a grinning mouthful of golden teeth and a half chewed-up cigar. Wearing a red headscarf, arm and leg beads, gold nose rings and earrings, and the traditional colorful mola panel blouse, she was inviting our women to join a raucous party.
Nature & Wildlife
Islands evoke feelings of relaxation, not death, torture and imprisonment. However, Coiba Island off the coast of Panama was actually used by the country’s former military dictatorship as a prison. Now, Coiba Island Prison has undergone a unique transformation into Coiba National Park.
Nature & Wildlife
The Panama Canal is an engineering innovation integral to modern shipping, international travel and trade. Surrounding the canal is the Panama Canal Watershed, a 1,300-acre area with significant biodiversity. The Panama Canal Authority works to ensure that development of the Panama Canal has a minimal effect on the ecosystem, so that local wildlife flourishes.
Conservation
By Christy Lavoie Destination Manager, Natural Habitat Adventures Panama’s Bocas del Toro is a little-known collection of rocky islands in the far northwest of the country on the Caribbean Sea, esteemed for its lush tropical vegetation and rich biodiversity, including fauna found nowhere else in the world.
Nature & Wildlife
One of the many joys of spring that I look forward to is the return of migratory birds to our yard.
