Earlier in June, around 300 families were relocated off the island of Gardi Sugdub in Panama’s Guna Yala province due to concerns over rising sea levels. The families were moved to a newly built housing development called Nuevo Cartí, on the mainland in Guna Yala, which is an autonomous region in the country. Gardi Sugdub is home to nearly 1,300 members of the Guna community, an indigenous population settled in autonomous regions of Panama and a few villages in Colombia.