by Meg | Jan 6, 2017 | Event
This years Panda-Monium event is being held in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 17th-19th. Given that PDXWildlife is in the Panda business, and this event brings together panda enthusiasts, we are more than thrilled to participate. What we are most excited about is to put...
by Meg | Jan 4, 2017 | Panda |
In preparation for going to the Wolong Panda Base in a few days to start a new study on panda reintroductions, I have been tasked with collecting urine samples from some of the pandas here at Bifengxia. By January 8th, I need to have collected urine from one male and...
by Meg | Jan 3, 2017 | Panda |
Over the last week we’ve had a few new arrivals here at Bifengxia. Two of these newly arrived pandas are Na Na and Zhang Ka. I was fortunate enough to complete stereotypic studies on both of these ladies on back-to-back days allowing me to get the scoop on these...
by Meg | Jan 2, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
Even though I just returned from China, we are preparing to send Meghan off later this week. With reintroduction studies kicking into high gear in Gengda, we are both scrambling to prepare behavioral ethograms and camera equipment as this is new territory for our...
by Meg | Dec 23, 2016 | Conservation, Science |
Giant panda no longer endangered The giant panda was down-listed from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Vulnerable’ on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) list. This change in official status demonstrates how a multi-institutional, integrated conservation effort...
