Coiba Island is home to Panama's last significant population of scarlet macaws. Sean Mattson According to a World Heritage datasheet on Coiba, 3,500 people visited the national park in 2004, the ...

The first published bird checklist from Jicarón and Jicarita, Panama's southernmost islands and part of Coiba National Park, underscores the importance of sending biologists to explore new territory.

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Coiba Island is Panama's penal colony, a dense jungle in the Pacific Ocean, three hours from the mainland by boat, and ringed with sharks. It is a place of exile for murderers and rapists.

Unmarked graves and unidentified prisoners “When people were sent to Coiba, they were forgotten about,” says Adiel Madrid, a member of Panama’s Aeronaval force, which now patrols the island.

Crossing a 23-kilometer stretch of ocean from mainland Panama to Coiba, the largest offshore island in the Eastern Pacific, a group of intrepid biologists hoped to find species never reported ...

The first published bird checklist from Jicarón and Jicarita, Panama's southernmost islands and part of Coiba National Park, underscores the importance of sending biologists to explore new territory.