by Meg | Jun 25, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, Environmental Impact, Internship, Sustainable seafood
Nothing screams summer like sitting outside and enjoying a nice piece of freshly grilled fish or cracking open a steaming Dungeness crab. With summer beginning tomorrow, we have decided to kick off our first ever PDXSeafood Sustainable Seafood Miniseries! In honor of...
by Meg | Aug 20, 2013 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Sustainable seafood
If any of you picked up a copy of the Oregonian this weekend you may have seen an interesting article on linking consumers (that’s you) to the people who fish their seafood (that’s the local fisherman catching crabs in Manzanita). The app is called...
by Meg | May 16, 2013 | animal, Conservation, Education, Environmental Impact, pollution
The last update on mercury levels in fish was put out to the public in 2004. Even though the 2004 update was a milestone, it’s source of data was put together from research that was 20 years old. Nearly 10 years has past since the last update, but it looks as...
by Meg | Jun 28, 2012 | Around PDX, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact
One of the wonderful scientists on our advisory board, Anne Warner, just sent this around to me and so I thought I’d share. From Anne: “There are so few ways to fund conservation work in this state I want to support this novel approach and help get the...
by Meg | Jan 27, 2012 | Antarctica, Around PDX, Environmental Impact, Travel
PDX Wildlife is very fortunate to have such a dedicated team of researchers who travel all overthe world. One such researcher, Isaac Sleadd, recently returned from Antarctica with a treasure trove of biological samples. Although Isaac studies antifreeze proteins, he...