The ungreening of Panama

From the Sidelines

Is Panama moving towards becoming a concrete jungle like so many of the cities that expat residents have fled?

According to According to the Environmental Information System of the National Environmental Authority (ANAM) it is.
The agency’s  latest reports show that .urban growth is leaving the city of Panama without green areas and spaces for its residents.

Forest cover, in 1970 was 70% and in 2009, was 43%. And those figures were compiled before the recent massive destruction of trees in Obarrio,  and  La Prensa (Apl 22) carries a photograph of another group of trees that have succumbed to the advance of machines, this time in front of the Isabel Herrera Obaldia vocational school in Via Israel.
Trees that have taken scores of years to grow and enrich the atmosphere and view, are gone within hours, to be replaced with massive concrete structures, like the treeless zone around the Trump tower,
Scope for a Panamanian book rivaling the Betty Smith naturism best seller, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn?
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