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The Guna Yala archipelago off Panama’s Caribbean coast has, it’s said, 365 islands – one for every day of the year! It’s a place of sunken shipwrecks, coral reefs and tropical beaches, as well as tropical storms. The few dozen inhabited islands are home to the Guna people, who enjoy political autonomy from the Panamanian State. The indigenous group was largely driven offshore centuries ago by disease and Spanish conquistadors. Simon Maybin is on the tropical Panamanian island of Carti Sugdub to find out more about plans to move its entire population to the mainland and by doing so escape rising sea levels. First broadcast on From Our Own Correspondent, 17 March 2018.