AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoCoiba Prison Transfer Sparks UNESCO Alarm: Panama’s Ombudsman and Defensoría del Pueblo warned that moving 29 high-risk inmates to pre-existing facilities on Coiba Island could jeopardize the UNESCO World Heritage status of Coiba National Park, citing the 2004 law that required the prison to end and the area to revert to environmental authority control. Cobre Panamá Audit Update: Panama’s environment ministry received an independent SGS audit for the Donoso open-pit mine, finding the project “broadly compliant” at about 88% but flagging major future risks—especially acid rock drainage, tailings dam stability, and biodiversity and habitat restoration—while officials say there are no “insurmountable” structural failures. Screwworm Response Grows Across the Americas: The IAEA and FAO launched a nuclear-technology project using the sterile insect technique to help contain the New World screwworm resurgence after cases reappeared in Central America, Mexico, and the U.S., with Panama’s COPEG facility producing about 100 million sterile flies weekly and plans to expand capacity in Mexico and Texas. Ocean Conservation Push: Fiji and Panama helped launch the Mesopelagic Zone Conservation Challenge to protect the “twilight zone” (200–1,000 meters deep) from threats like fishing and deep-sea mining, calling for concrete protections and better study of this poorly understood ecosystem.
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