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Around 300 Guna Indigenous families on Gardi Sugdub Island off Panama's Caribbean coast are voluntarily evacuating to the mainland due to rising sea levels, becoming the first of 63 communities expected to relocate in the coming decades. The government has built new homes on the mainland for them at a cost of $12 million, as the island's low elevation and climate change impacts have made it increasingly unsafe. The move reflects the broader global trend of coastal communities being affected by rising sea levels due to climate change, with Panama estimating a cost of $1.2 billion to relocate around 38,000 inhabitants facing similar challenges by 2050.
Source: YAHOO