by Meg | May 29, 2016 | Internship |
Hello everyone! It’s me, Hailey (the tallest intern). My first week in Ya’an has been absolutely phenomenal. As I sat on the bus to Bifengxia for our very first day at the base I was filled with excitement, not only to be in a new place, with a new...
by Meg | May 27, 2016 | Panda |
In celebration of Lin Bing’s 7th birthday, and at the request of a few loyal PDXWildlife followers, we wanted to sing happy birthday. We also attempted to give her an ice block birthday cake but she seemed uninterested. Lin Bing is quite a special bear with many...
by Meg | May 26, 2016 | Travel
“This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.” ― Alexander McCall Smith I’m so sorry that it has taken me a while to rebound enough from my Edinburgh trip to give you guys an...
by Meg | May 24, 2016 | PDXWildlife
We have a sequence of events that we try to follow when bringing in new interns. First, we introduce them to the city, and second, we introduce them to the panda base. We do the first two as low-keyed half days, but on the third day we spend about 10 hours at...
by Meg | May 23, 2016 | Internship
If you ask any of our past interns, the first two weeks are overwhelmingly the most difficult. Jet-lagged, exhausted, and required to begin training in endangered species research almost immediately upon arrival, it’s easy to understand why the transition is...
