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The effects of Climate Change on land use for Panamanian Indigenous Tribes

The effects of Climate Change on land use for Panamanian Indigenous Tribes. Kara Mariano. January 8, 2010. Cayuga Community college. Outline. Indigenous tribe locations Land use specifics Temperature anomalies: 2020 & 2050 Precipitation anomalies: 2020 & 2050 Observations

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The effects of Climate Change on land use for Panamanian Indigenous Tribes

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  1. The effects of Climate Change on land use for Panamanian Indigenous Tribes Kara Mariano January 8, 2010 Cayuga Community college

  2. Outline • Indigenous tribe locations • Land use specifics • Temperature anomalies: 2020 & 2050 • Precipitation anomalies: 2020 & 2050 • Observations • What can this lead to? • Further study • Acknowledgements

  3. Comarcas • Ngobe Bugle • Kuna Yala • Embera Three Main Indigenous Tribes

  4. Panama Indigenous Land

  5. Land Use

  6. Major Land Use Purposes • Housing • Location • Materials • Occupations • Materials for handcrafts • Tourism attractions • Food Source • Fishing • Forest Crops

  7. Temperature Anomaliesdry season 2020s January Degrees C 2050s

  8. Temperature Anomalies wet season July 2020s 2050s

  9. Temperature Observations

  10. Ngobe Bugle • 0.7 to 1 degree C increase for 2020 • 1.2 degree C increase for 2050 • 1 degree C increase for 2020 • 2.2 degree C increase for 2050 Wet Season Dry Season

  11. Kuna Yala • 0.7 to 0.9 degree C increase for 2020 • 0.7 to 1.1 degree C increase in 2050 • 0.7 degrees C increase for 2020 • 1.8 degrees C increase for 2050 Dry Season Wet Season

  12. Embera • 0.7 to 1.2 degree C increase for 2020 • 1.2 to 1.3 degree C increase for 2050 • 0.7 to 0.9 degree C increase for 2020 • 1.7 to 2.2 degree C increase for 2050 Dry Season Wet Season

  13. Precipitation Anomaliesdry season 2020s January 2050s

  14. Precipitation Anomalieswet season 2020s July 2050s

  15. Precipitation Observations

  16. Ngobe Bugle • -4.3 to a -21.6 mm decrease in 2020 • -4.3 to a 77.7 mm decrease in 2050 Dry Season • 0.9 to a -10.5 change in 2020 • 0.9 to a -10.5 change in 2050 (majority is a mm decrease) Wet Season

  17. Kuna Yala • -1.3 to -10.5 mm decrease in 2020 • -4.4 to -41.6 mm decrease in 2050 Dry Season Wet Season • 0.9 to -10.5 mm change in 2020 • 0.9 to -10.5 mm change in 2050 (majority -4.4 to -10.5 mm)

  18. Embera • -1 to -10.5 mm decrease in 2020 • -4.4 to -21.6 mm decrease in 2050 • 5.4 to 0.8 mm change in 2020 • 0.8 to 1.9 mm change in 2050 Wet Season Dry Season

  19. Observations • It appears that the temperature anomalies for the wet and dry season continue to show an increase in 2020 and 2050 • It appears that precipitation anomalies for the wet and dry seasons show a decrease in 2020 and 2050

  20. In Theory • The increase in temperature and decrease in precipitation in 2020 and 2050 can cause drought, severe heat exhaustion, deforestation, desertification, inability to survive within the land

  21. Negative effects • Decrease in: • Availability of resources • Housing supplies • Craft supplies • Decrease in usable land • Agriculture • Housing • Limiting growth • Decrease Profits • Limited handcraft supplies • Decrease in time • Decrease Tourist attractions Complete Change in Natural Lifestyle

  22. Societal Catastrophic Example Lower Sea Levels would Cause a Which is the tribes main food source Decrease in This would cause a need to purchase fish or meat to store at the sights. The Para Puru community within Embera powers refrigerators through solar panels. Once, the battery life depletes, they will have to find other ways to power the refrigerator. Without the money to purchase energy, from tourism or crafts, they would have to change their complete livelihoods

  23. What can this lead to? • Eventually, I theorize that the indigenous tribes will be forced to migrate away from there homeland • The climate changes could potentially cause severe chaos and lead to a disastrous destruction of the ancestral indigenous tribes

  24. Recommendations for Further Study • Create anomaly maps for: land use, deforestation, drought • Expand location • Expand anomaly years • Add the two recent indigenous tribes of Panama

  25. Acknowledgements • IAGT • USAID • Eric Anderson • Africa Flores • John Flores • Emil Cherrington • Francisco Delagado • Joel Perez • Eloisa Dutari • Lilian Suarez • Betsy Hernandez • Roxana Segundo • Valerie Garrish • Mr. G Special Thanks to Amy Work, Nate Krause, Mariana Escamilla, andCATHALAC

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