When your community's wildlife survey turns up a jaguar, suddenly everyone's an ecologist.

In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

Four Indigenous communities in Panama's Darién forest documented over 200 species across 18,000 hectares, including a jaguar, to establish a biodiversity baseline for entering the biodiversity credits market, a new conservation financing mechanism still in early stages.

Source: In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation — Mongabay Conservation

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