by Meg | Mar 4, 2012 | Panda |
Well this morning was a busy one at the breeding center. It looks like over the weekend all the female giant pandas decided to go into estrous at once. The hormones and behaviors of 8 females are increasing. That means that this week and next week will be very busy...
by ddishman | Feb 2, 2012 | Antarctica, Environmental Impact
The Environmental News Network recently reported the findings from a comprehensive study of the complex food networks of the Southern Ocean. The result? Food webs in this highly productive ocean area are being impacted by climate change and greenhouse gasses. One of...
by ddishman | Jan 25, 2012 | Around PDX, Misc. |
If you’ve been interested in the status of wolves in Oregon since they were delisted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2010 you’re not alone – in fact, the wildlife conservation news website The Wildlife News has an entire category dedicated...
by Meg | Jan 23, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Panda
Read this fabulous NPR article on the work of George Schaller who wrote the book The Last Panda. Schallers’ work showed for the first time that the panda population wasn’t decreasing due to cyclic bamboo grooves providing an unreliable food source but...
by ddishman | Jan 21, 2012 | Grass Roots Programs, Marine Mammal |
This will be the final installment of the research updates I wrote while working in the Philippines. The main objective of the research arm of our project was to establish whether dugongs (Dugong dugon), an endangered marine mammal species related to manatees, were...
