An island paradise that should be considered a protected area.

As it has species that are unique in the world, the island requires some degree of protection.

From the heights, a patch of intense green stands out in the turquoise sea. In the immensity of the Caribbean, the wooded island seduces for its great beauty, and the waters that surround it are a sort of impressionist painting. Pure natural art.

In this remote and extremely beautiful place, we feel the force of a vulnerable and prodigious nature.

I see islets, where brown boobies lovingly feed their white chicks, while others jealously incubate their eggs. And the crystalline sea shows the secrets of the deep with unusual clarity.

Channels and small inlets of very shallow water look as if carpeted by coral reefs and seaweed fields, next to untouched tropical forests – with 20 m high trees – which use every space of the low lands of the Escudo de Veraguas to grow healthily.

At certain times of year, when the sea is much calmer, the Ngöbe fishermen arrive. Dozens of boats made from cedar trunks looking for fish journey through its narrow channels.

In Escudo de Veraguas, some fifty palm huts serve as dwelling for Ngöbe fishermen, the real owners of the island since forgotten times.

The Ngöbes have denounced to the Environment Commission their frustration for a possible sale of the island. And they are ready to go far in its defense.

We will take out our arrows and will defend what is ours – thus a local fisherman manifested his anger to the legislators.
Although it was recognized by science as a place inhabited by species that do not exist in any other place on the planet, the possible concession of its land for building hotels could signify the end of this paradise.
 
Unique nature
It has various endemic species, like a three toed sloth, the armored rat, the Escudo bat, a type of salamander and the Eletherodactylus rugulosus frog, in addition to several sub-species of birds and a humming bird only found on the island.

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