The industrial extractivism of materials (metallic and non-metallic such as water) in Panama has become part of environmental conflicts in the last 20 years that are exposed in contrast to the political discourses that propose exploration and extraction as a development model. to the detriment of the environments inhabited by biotic and abiotic elements, many of them endemic to our tropical humid forests; They violate their subsistence. This article is a proposal for citizen reflection and environmental governance, for our politicians who make decisions to grant multinationals the extraction of non-renewable resources, as if there were no tomorrow to protect for our future generations. It presents as firm data, the most recent map of environmental conflicts in Latin America from the Observatory of Mining Conflicts of Latin America, which includes Panama, for issues related to mineral extraction.