Good day!
At this point you probably have heard about Panama. Yes, Panama, the Central Americna republic, where the Panama Canal was built. Yes, Panama, the smallest land link that joins the Americas. The same Panama that millions of neotropical birds cross every year in their migrations from the North and from the South.
The Panama Canal area, and most of the isthmus of Panama was filled with tropical rainforests, the largest reserve in Darien, next to Colombia.
With the Panama Canal construction, defenses and the defenders living quarters were built across the Canal area. That included Fort Clayton, one of the largest Army forts south of the border.
The construction of housing in Fort Clayton between 1922 and 1978 produced lots of forest fragmentation, however migratory birds and mammals continue to thrive despite this, since the houses were small of one floor or two floors, widely spaced and with lots of trees and green areas in between. Many forest patches interconnect or reside close to each other so birds to this day continue to pass.
Moreover, many of the information about migratory birds in Panama were the result of patient observations done in Clayton between the 1930s and 1990s just before the Canal and Clayton passed to Panamanian hands.
Dear reader, that is about to change. A 18-stories 3-tower apartment complex is about to be built between riparian forests and hill forests of about 4-stories canopies. The towers will essentially stop the birds from being able to pass between these forest patches, many of which link forested reserve areas with a National Park and a Natural Park.
Migratory birds have been a long tourist attraction to Panama, but ironically the apartment towers were designed and will be built by the National Tourism Institute's deputy director.
This blog is an account of this biodiversity massacre known as Clayton View, and a warning to you and your friends to not buy an apartment from this project or invest in this project. If you have done so, ask your money back.
Read on, you will see first hand the disaster that is coming to Panama. You can help to stop it.
Our best regards,
From the people who oppose to constructions that will destroy the Biodiversity of Panama and the Americas.
