by Meg | Feb 11, 2012 | Environmental Impact, Panda |
As part of our studies while we are here in China, we are collecting samples of bamboo at the CCRCGP Panda Base and analyzing for total mercury concentrations. Analyzing for mercury turns out to be the easy part. It’s identifying the bamboo species which can...
by Meg | Feb 6, 2012 | Panda |
We arrived in Chengdu at 11pm on February 2nd (after 24 hours of grueling airplane travel with a 2 year old and 11 bags of luggage filled with research equipment). Chengdu is about 2 hours by car outside of Ya’an city, so a driver had to come and pick us up on...
by Meg | Jan 29, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Marine Mammal
A new study published in the most recent edition of Biological Conservation reported that many of the smaller marine mammals such as dolphins, porpoises and manatees are ending up on the menu in many parts of the world. ScienceDaily, Jan. 24th, 2012....
by Meg | Jan 27, 2012 | Antarctica, Around PDX, Environmental Impact, Travel
PDX Wildlife is very fortunate to have such a dedicated team of researchers who travel all overthe world. One such researcher, Isaac Sleadd, recently returned from Antarctica with a treasure trove of biological samples. Although Isaac studies antifreeze proteins, he...
by Meg | Jan 23, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Panda
Read this fabulous NPR article on the work of George Schaller who wrote the book The Last Panda. Schallers’ work showed for the first time that the panda population wasn’t decreasing due to cyclic bamboo grooves providing an unreliable food source but...
