Experts say the sea will engulf Panama's Carti Sugtupu and dozens of neighbouring islands in the Guna Yala region by the end of the century.
"We have noticed that the tide has risen," retired teacher Magdalena Martinez, 73, told the AFP news agency as she sat embroidering a brightly-coloured toucan onto a"mola" cloth traditional to the Guna people on Carti Sugtupu.Martinez is one of hundreds of inhabitants of the island expecting to move soon to a settlement on mainland Panama newly built by the government -- a move that may save the islanders, but puts at risk their culture and way of life.
"The fact is that with sea levels rising as a direct cause of climate change, almost all the islands are going to be abandoned by the end of this century," Steven Paton, a scientist at the Panama-based Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, told AFP.'There is no room' Few have reliable electricity. Most residents receive a few hours of power per day from a public generator. A few have solar panels feeding their homes built of zinc and wood, with floors of dirt.
"There is no room to expand homes or for children to play," Human Rights Watch said in a recent report on the island.
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