About 2,000 Guna Yala residents will become one of the first indigenous communities in Latin America to be relocated due to climate change.
Islander Magdalena Martinez, who has campaigned for new housing on the mainland, tells the BBC how she feels about leaving the island where she grew up.
The government of Panama estimates that all of the islands of the Guna people could be underwater by 2050, based on projections by an independent group of scientists, although others believe that the islands may not all be underwater until the end of the century.
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