“If the island is drowned, I will drown with it,” says Delphino Davis.

There is silence, with the exception of the profit of his ingredient across the land of the small museum, which is managed by documenting the life of his community in Panama, Gona.

“Before, you can hear the children screaming … music everywhere, the neighbors argue,” but now all the sounds have gone. “

His society, which lives on the low -sized Sogidoub Island, is the first in Panama to be transferred due to climate change.

The government said it is facing “imminent risks” to high levels of sea surface, which scientists say that it is likely to make the island unclean by 2050.

In June of last year, most of the population abandoned this narrow mixture of wooden houses and tin for classes of elegant ready -made homes on the mainland.

The transition was praised by some as a model for other groups around the world whose homes are threatened, but though, society has been divided.

“My father, my brother, my sisters, and my friends have left,” says Delphino. “Sometimes the children whose families remain cry, wondering where their friends went, he says.

The house after the house lock. About 1,000 people left, while about 100 – some of them remained because there was not enough space in the new settlement. Others, like Defino, are not fully convinced that climate change is a threat, or simply do not want to leave.

He says he wants to stay near the ocean, where he can hunt. “People who lose their traditions lose their soul. The essence of our culture in the islands.”

Guna has lived on Gardi Sugdub from the nineteenth century, and even longer in other islands in this archipelago off the northern coast in Panama. They escaped from the main mainland to escape from the Spanish invaders, then epidemics and conflict with groups of other indigenous people.

It is known for their clothes called “Mlas”, decorated with colored designs.

Gona is currently inhabited by more than 40 other islands. Steve Patton, a scientist at the Smithsonian Institute for Equatorial Research in Panama, says that it is “almost certain” that most of the islands, if not all, will be immersed before the end of the century.

As climate change causes the Earth to heat, sea levels rise with ice flowers and ice boards and sea water expands with high temperatures.

Scientists warn that hundreds of millions of people living in coastal regions around the world may be at risk by the end of the century.

On Gardi Sugdub, the waves are washed during the rainy season, and they decreased under the sheep where families sleep.

“It is unlikely that the island is suitable for housing by 2050, based on the current and expected sea level rise rates,” says Mr. Patton.

However, the first discussions on transportation began, more than a decade, due to population growth, not climate change.

The island is 400 meters long and 150 meters wide. Some overcrowding sees as a more urgent problem. But others, like Magdalena Martínez, fear the rising sea:

“Every year, we have seen the tide above,” she says. “We were unable to cook on our stoves, and the water has always been overwhelmed … so we said,” We have to get out of here. “

Magdalena was among those who entered car boats and wooden boats last June, heading to new homes.

“I only brought my clothes and some kitchen tools,” she says. “You feel that you are leaving a piece of your life on the island.”

The new community, ISBERYALA, is – the weather – only 15 minutes by boat, followed by 5 minutes by car, from Radi Sujdoub. But it seems like another world.

Corner white and yellow lines are counterfeit roads.

The eyes of Magdalena shine as she appears “The Little House” where she lives with her 14 -year -old Bianca granddaughter and her dog.

Each house has a small area of ​​the ground behind it – unavailable luxury on the island. “I want to plant Yuka, tomatoes, bananas, mangoes and pineapple”, enthusiastically.

“It is sad to leave a place where you were for a long time. You miss your friends, the streets you lived in, and to be very close to the sea,” she says.

Isperyala was built for $ 15 million (12 million pounds) from the Panamanian government and additional financing from the Development Bank between America.

In her new home, which was roofed with branches and papers in the traditional style, Tito López, Sayla – or the community leader.

“My identity and culture will not change, it is only the homes that have changed.”

He is lying in a swing, and explains that as long as the swing maintains its place in the culture of Gona, “the heart of the Gona people will be alive.”

When Gona dies, they lie for one day in the swing of family and friends to visit him. Then it is buried next to them.

In a new school on the latest students, students between the ages of 12 and 13 are training on Guna music and dances. Boys in bright shirts play general tubes, while girls wearing Moulaz Maracas.

The narrow school on the island is now closed, and the students whose families remained there are traveling every day to the new building with computers, sports fields and library.

Magdalina says that the conditions in Esberlala are better than the island, as they say they have only four hours of electricity a day and they were forced to bring drinking water on a boat from a river on the mainland.

In Isperyala, the power source is fixed, but the water – which is pumped from nearby wells – is operated only for a few hours a day. The system has sometimes collapsed for several days at a time.

Also, there is no health care yet. On one night, Yanizella Valerino says, one night, one night, her young daughter was fine and had to arrange the transfer to the island late at night to see a doctor.

The BBC Panamphic authorities told the construction of a hospital in Esberiala a decade ago due to a lack of financing. But they said they hoped to revive the plan this year, and they were establishing how to create a space for the remaining population to move from the island.

Yanizella is now able to attend evening lessons in the new school, but it is still returning to the island.

“I am not accustomed to it yet. I miss my house,” she says.

Erika Power, a climate displacement in Human Rights Watch, says societies around the world will be “inspired” through the way in which the residents of the Guardi Sogdoub faced their status.

“We need to learn from these early cases to understand how success appears,” she says.

With the arrival of the afternoon, schools give school screams and pear from football, basketball and volleyball.

“I prefer this place for the island because we have more space to play,” says Gerson, eight -year -old, before diving for football.

Magdalina sits with her granddaughter, teaching her to sew Mlas.

“It is difficult for her, but I know she will learn. Our unique ways cannot be lost,” says Majdalina.

She was asked about what she was missing from the island, she replied, “I hope we are all here.”