Coiba AIP will host XXI COLACMAR 2026
The Latin American Congress of Marine Sciences comes to Panama with the station as host.
SENACYT · UNESCO World Natural Heritage
The Coiba AIP Scientific Station works inside a 270,125-hectare archipelago where 80 % of the primary forest is still standing. We research, monitor and open up the data of the Eastern Tropical Pacific.
The Island
For almost a century, prison isolation kept Coiba out of reach of logging and industrial fishing. That confinement left behind the best-preserved insular tropical forest in the American Pacific and a mosaic of reefs that now works as a baseline for the entire marine corridor.
Since 2016, Coiba AIP has coordinated the research done in the archipelago: taxonomy, physical oceanography, reef ecology and climate change, together with Panamanian universities and international centres.
“What is protected without data is protected blindly. Coiba is where Panama learns to measure its own ocean.”
Scientific direction · Coiba AIP
Escalas, dimensiones y procesos que alteran y mantienen la biodiversidad.
Procesos evolutivos y estudios poblacionales en primates, roedores, aves, anfibios y reptiles.
Restauración ecológica, control de la erosión y recuperación de áreas degradadas.
Territory
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Digital catalogue
The Latin American Congress of Marine Sciences comes to Panama with the station as host.
El hallazgo, respaldado por evidencia genética, posiciona a Panamá como punto clave para la conservación de tiburones en el Pacífico Tropical Oriental
El hallazgo, respaldado por evidencia genética, posiciona a Panamá como punto clave para la conservación de tiburones en el Pacífico Tropical Oriental
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