by Meg | Dec 12, 2016 | China
While PDXWildlife heavily focuses their internship program on science and study design, an exciting and necessary addition is cultural immersion. Without diving head-first into the complexities of Chinese society, one might not receive the full experience that this...
by Meg | Jun 14, 2016 | China |
As PDXWildlife primarily posts on the happenings of pandas and interns, we thought it might be a nice gesture to speak about the familiar faces that we encounter everyday in China. The walk from our apartment to the panda base bus stop takes us past the same people...
by Meg | Mar 29, 2016 | China, PDXWildlife |
As I stuff the last of my dirty clothes into my luggage, I begin to get excited to see my wife and daughter. However, leaving China is never an easy process as it has an addictive quality about it. Weather it’s the smell of freshly steamed baozi or sleepy eyed...
by Meg | Mar 13, 2016 | China, Internship, PDX Wildlife
While most of the research we conduct here at Bifengxia is on pandas, once in a while the competitive nature of human beings comes into focus, especially among roommates. I’m excited to see our four PDXWildlife interns getting along so well. They have quickly...
by Meg | Oct 22, 2015 | China, Nonprofit, Panda, PDX Wildlife, Travel |
PDXWildlife’s main base of operations is in Bifengxia, which sits in the mountains above Ya’an, Sichuan, China. It’s a 30 minute bus ride from our apartment, winding through a steep, bamboo lined canyon of rain soaked rock. The Bifengxia base...
by Meg | Oct 18, 2015 | China, Panda, PDX Wildlife |
PDXWildlife spends quite a bit of time working in China. We try to take as many photos and video to share with everyone, but we thought it would be best to put together a Video Tour of each of the bases where we do most of our research. It’s also quite a trip to...
