by Meg | Mar 16, 2013 | Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Panda, Science, wildlife |
I recently received an email from Michaela Henderson who was writing a report for her middle school class. She asked, “Why are pandas colored the way that they are? Just to look cute, or to trap heat during the winter, or something else?” I always get...
by Meg | Mar 15, 2013 | animal, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Nonprofit, Panda, PDX Wildlife, photography, Science, Travel, wildlife |
After the partial destruction of the Wolong panda center during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, plans were laid out to build a new facility a few kilometers away. Additionally, a disease control center was to be built closer to Chengdu. It has now been five years since...
by Meg | Mar 14, 2013 | animal, coal, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Science, Travel, wildlife
Being the only Americans in a city of 1.25 million, you tend to stick out a little bit. It just so happened that we caught the eye of a reporter from the Ya’an Daily Newspaper. Over a steaming bowl of Ya’an’s best noodles at Mr. Cheng’s, we...
by Meg | Mar 13, 2013 | Panda, Science, wildlife |
Are you ready for some of the cutest pictures EVER? I spent a lot of time around the kindergarten recently since there isn’t any breeding going on. These are Long Xin, Xi Mei, Shui Xiu, and Si Xue’s cubs from last years breeding. I...
by Meg | Mar 4, 2013 | animal, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Science, wildlife
The extreme difficulty in obtaining permits to transfer biological samples back to the United States from China has caused our mercury project to use a lab here in China. We are very pleased to have made contact with one of China’s foremost Methylmercury...
