by Meg | Apr 22, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, pollution
The seemingly endless stretch of the San Joaquin Valley in South central California is bordered on all sides by federal penitentiaries and quadrants of produce. I cannot think of a better place to capture uniform lines of roads and crops that intertwine with...
by Meg | Apr 15, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact |
I just got the news that our pygmy rabbit study is technically “in press” through the prestigious journal of Conservation Biology. With an impact factor of 4.894 and ISI Journal Citation Reports Ranking of 2/33 (Biodiversity Conservation); 2/34...
by Meg | Apr 2, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Travel |
Bamboo comprises 90-100% of the Pandas diet and is collected from all over the Sichuan province to feed the bears insatiable appetite. In a previous study that we performed last year, the bamboo that was collected near the city center in comparison to samples...
by Meg | Feb 28, 2012 | coal, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution |
The other afternoon I managed to convince a local restaurant owner to drive me to several coal brick production facilities here in Ya’an. These shops, which are often in the middle of town are simply redistributors of the same coal that is mined near the...
by Meg | Feb 26, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact |
I am so glad that Julia wrote this post as I was about to write a similar post about moon bears here in China. As Julia mentioned, the largest threat to endangered wildlife here in China (most of Asia it appears) is the illegal wildlife trade. Like Loas,...
by Meg | Feb 24, 2012 | coal, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Travel |
One of the first things you notice when arriving in China is the amount of smog that sits in the air around its cities. Ya’an is considered small in regards to Shanghai or Beijing with a population of 1.5 million, but it’s no exception to the dense clouds...
