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
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Our Current Priorities
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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?
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 gibbons use, especially the ones that they feed in. I hope to identify the trees to species. Then our description of the habitat and food sources for...
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 luggage filled with research equipment). Chengdu is about 2 hours by car outside of Ya'an city, so a driver had to come and pick us up on the...
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 of writing. Since I last wrote many changes have taken place at my site that have made me very sad. If you recall from a previous blog, a massive...
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