Being a 1-year old panda: Peeks into the lives of the 2012 yearlings at Bi Feng Xia

by Meg | Aug 8, 2013 | animal, Endangered Species, Panda, Science | 7 comments

The 2012 babies are having their one-year birthdays (July-August) so we thought it would be appropriate to wish our little baby pandas “Happy Birthday”  with a couple of super cute photos – and some fun facts about baby pandas. At Birth Can you...

Why should we care about sustainable seafood?: Aquaculture

by Meg | Jul 14, 2013 | Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Science, Sustainable seafood

Farming seafood holds great promise as a solution to the ever-increasing pressures on our ocean resources.  And guess what?  Seafood Watch’s “The State of Seafood Report” found that humans will soon eat more seafood from farms than from the oceans. ...

Why should we care about sustainable seafood?: Overfishing & Increased Demand

by Meg | Jun 26, 2013 | Around PDX, Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Science, Sustainable seafood

*Tomorrow our first menus come out! Make sure to comment if you see them!* Did you know that 118 million tons of fish are extracted from oceans each year?  Yep that’s a MILLION TONS!  And what’s even scarier is that we expect this number to increase by an...

Why should you care about sustainable seafood?: Bycatch

by Meg | Jun 24, 2013 | Around PDX, Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Sustainable seafood

As our first menus appear this week I thought it would be an awesome idea to start a blog conversation about sustainable seafood and why we should care.  Throughout the week I’ll be highlighting the four major reasons we should all be concerned about eating...

Su Lin’s one special girl (but we already knew that!)

by Meg | Jun 22, 2013 | Conservation, Endangered Species, Panda, Science, wildlife | 4 comments

Since starting the personality studies, I’ve noticed that each panda approaches the enrichment items differently. I’ve seen pandas swat at the basketball or pick the ball up to hold it, and I’ve seen a panda place her paw on a piece of ice and rub it back and forth...

3D Panda Movie and filming process

by Meg | Jun 14, 2013 | Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Panda, wildlife

I don’t know if I mentioned this earlier (we didn’t know how hush, hush this project was so were hesitant to publish anything on the blog), but National Geographic and Sky 3D were at the breeding center this winter filming an exciting new 3D panda movie!...