by Meg | Mar 1, 2018 | Internship, PDXWildlife |
Like Amber, Connor Runyon has been at Gengda since January! They’ve been doing a great job and I look forward to publishing their blogs with more frequency now that I’m on the ground here in China! “My name is Connor Runyan, and I have just begun my...
by Meg | Feb 8, 2018 | Conservation, Panda, PDXWildlife |
Returning to Gengda for the third time has been quite the whirlwind. Between a 40+ travel time across the world which included and overnight stay in a hotel in Seattle, and an airline losing my bag, nothing seemed to be working out right. However, upon arrival to...
by Meg | Feb 2, 2018 | Internship, Panda, PDXWildlife |
I primarily focus on the maternal care study for the Winter Internship at Bifengxia, so I thought it’d be appropriate for me to talk about the different mothers I observe. I will focus on 3 mothers in this blog post – Qiao Qiao, Xi Dou, and Su Shan. All three have...
by Meg | Dec 19, 2017 | Science |
It is time for my last update from “The ‘Da”, as I will be leaving here in just a few days. I have really enjoyed all the work that I have been doing with the pandas, and despite its isolation, the town of Gengda has welcomed us and feels like it is now my Chinese...
by Meg | Sep 9, 2017 | Science |
Located about 2 hours from Chengdu, Gengda is nestled in the picturesque Wolong Nature Reserve and is the newest location within the China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Pandas (CCRCGP). All together, the CCRCGP is comprised of Bifengxia, Dujiangyan,...
