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?
LeadCare II: First year analyzing Panda’s blood for lead
The 2017 Winter Interns have been off to a fast start. We dove straight into the breeding season on our first day. We have been recording the female’s behaviors when their estrus levels begin to peak, the male’s behaviors after male-male competition, and...
Identifying Lead Exposure in Giant Pandas
Magellan Diagnostics, the maker of a point-of-care blood lead analyzer, has announced an agreement to provide its LeadCare® II testing system to PDXWildlife at the Bifengxia Panda Base in Sichuan, China, for the study of lead exposure in captive giant pandas. The...
7 Things I Learned in My First 7 Days
We have been officially interning for over a week at the Bifengxia Panda Base here in Ya’an, China. One week seems shallow compared to the three months we will be here yet we’ve already learned and experienced so much about pandas, the culture, the history and...
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