by Meg | Oct 3, 2012 | Internship, Panda
Starting on October 1 is an eight day holiday here in China, called National Day. From what I can gather everyone in China has this time off and travels. I believe that most of them have come to Bi Fengxia to see pandas. The bus ride up to base normally takes about 30...
by Meg | Jul 20, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Internship, Panda, Travel
Everyone at the base has been busy the last couple of weeks preparing for the arrival of the first panda cubs: All the male pandas have been moved out of the breeding center to make room for the females that the staff believes are close to giving birth, the breeding...
by Meg | Feb 6, 2012 | Panda |
We arrived in Chengdu at 11pm on February 2nd (after 24 hours of grueling airplane travel with a 2 year old and 11 bags of luggage filled with research equipment). Chengdu is about 2 hours by car outside of Ya’an city, so a driver had to come and pick us up on...
