Saving Species
Our Mission
Protect and restore species and habitat diversity for future generations through our local and global wildlife conservation initiatives.
Our Work
Priorities, Research, Engagement
Giant Panda
Taylor's Checkerspot
Internships
Male-Male Competition
Operations
Maternal Care
What We Do
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Research
We develop and conduct innovative in situ and ex situ wildlife research to identify critical conservation issues and provide creative solutions to managers and fellow scientists.
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Internships
We train promising young scientists through our intensive internship programs and educate local communities on actions they can take to conserve and benefit from their natural resources.
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Applied Biology
We focus our research to answer specific pressing questions imperiled species are encountering and incorporate the newest innovations and cutting edge research into our conservation projects.
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Integration
We integrate the above techniques to implement focused conservation initiatives at the LOCAL level that promote and support wildlife, habitat, and biodiversity conservation at the GLOBAL level.
Who We Are
Meghan Martin, PhD
Director
Meagan Gombart
Communications/Outreach Manager
Katie Zajac
Research Associate
Sharon Glaeser
Conservation Biologist
What’s Happening Now?
Botany is hard!
The past few weeks have been very busy as we have been trying to collect plant samples from all of the trees that the...
Bi Feng Xia Panda Base: Waiting for pandas to go into estrous
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...
Crested Gibbon Update (finally..)
I am sorry it has been so long since I last blogged. After traveling to the states for the holidays I got out of the habit...
Southern Ocean food webs at risk
The Environmental News Network recently reported the findings from a comprehensive study of the complex food networks of...
Marine Mammals On the Menu All Over the World
A new study published in the most recent edition of Biological Conservation reported that many of the smaller marine...
Mercury in Antarctic Fish & the Gundersen Lab
PDX Wildlife is very fortunate to have such a dedicated team of researchers who travel all overthe world. One such...
Oregon wolves: population growth and pop culture fame
If you've been interested in the status of wolves in Oregon since they were delisted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
A nod to one of the legendary panda scientists – George Schaller
Read this fabulous NPR article on the work of George Schaller who wrote the book The Last Panda. Schallers' work showed...
Philippines Research Update: Talking to fishermen, tracking down dugongs
This will be the final installment of the research updates I wrote while working in the Philippines. The main objective...
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