Our Mission
Protect and restore species and habitat diversity for future generations
through our local and global wildlife conservation initiatives.
Our Research
Giant Panda
Taylor's Checkerspot Butterfly
Internships
Our Current Priorities
Male-Male competition
Our team 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-Wintle PhD
Director
Meagan Gombart
Communications/Outreach Manager
Katie Zajac
Research Associate
Sharon Glaeser
Conservation Biologist
What’s Happening Now?
Why should we care about sustainable seafood?: Aquaculture
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. In 2010 nearly...
Guess that Panda: 2
Here's the next panda for all you panda aficionados out there. First one to get it right gets a window decal of our logo! I'll post the answer at the end of the month. - Meg
Welcome our new PDXWildChild Intern – Ed Galvin
While working as a carpet cleaner Ed was unsatisfied with explaining to customers that stains cannot be removed and; as an electronics salesperson was unenthusiastic about steering shoppers’ impulse purchases to products with higher profit margins. Ed decided to go...
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