The Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests and Prisma present A Forest for Life: Forest Management in the Embera Wounan Territory” capturing the achievements of the Embera Wounan Territory” in the Darien Province of Panama” in the sustainable management of its natural resources. The video illustrates the progress and achievements of indigenous forest management through interviews with community leaders. Despite this progress” however” these Indigenous Peoples face a series of challenges in consolidating the sustainable management of their resources” including external pressures that threaten their territories” as well as regulatory and logistical obstacles. The experience demonstrates the capacity and potential for Indigenous Peoples as central actors in sustainable forest management and development based on their own cosmo-vision. 

Watch the video in Spanish or with English subtitles.