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Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone (1910-1912)

The Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone was conducted by the Smithsonian Institution between 1910 and 1912. It was a comprehensive survey of the native flora and fauna of the isthmus of Panama ...
The New York Times

Discovering Amazing Wildlife Along the Panama Canal

The Panamanian birding guide Nando, whose full name is Ismael Hernando Quiroz Miranda, leads a tour around the bird-rich Canal Zone in Panama. The streak-chested antpitta is among the hundreds of ...
WUNC

Jimmy Carter gave Panama control of the canal. It's one of his most controversial achievements

It was a territory known to some who lived there as a tropical utopia. The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S. control for nearly 75 years. But in 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed treaties ...
inforum

Letter: A history of the Panama Canal

In 1903 the young country of Panama signed a treaty with the United States allowing the construction and control of the Panama Canal Zone. The treaty placed the Panamanians at a disadvantage resulting ...