by Meg | Aug 31, 2017 | Internship, Science |
Katie, Hallie and I are concluding our second week in China; and the differences from life in the western world are vast and fascinating. With very limited language skills, the three of us have navigated the large City of Chengdu rather successfully. We found our way...
by Meg | Aug 30, 2017 | Science
An interesting aspect of conducting year-round research at Bifengxia is that we get to observe panda behaviors every season, which allows us to detect seasonal changes. As this is the first time that I have traveled here in the fall, I’ve started noticing a...
by Meg | Aug 21, 2017 | Internship |
My adventure began with a 13 hour nonstop flight from Chicago O’Hare Airport to Beijing. I claimed my bag, went through customs and hurried to catch my flight to Chengdu only to find there was a delay. After 8 hours of waiting and trying to sleep on the...
by Meg | Aug 17, 2017 | Internship |
Hello from Canada! I’m so excited to have been selected as one of PDXWildlife’s interns heading to China in August. It has always been a dream of mine to travel to China and it is an even greater privilege to be able to study my favourite animal, the giant panda. My...
by Meg | Aug 16, 2017 | Internship |
Hello Everyone! I’m very excited to announce that I will be joining PDXWildlife’s team of fall 2017 Interns at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Ya’an, China! I could not be more enthusiastic about this opportunity to contribute to the...