by Meg | May 23, 2013 | Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Panda, Science, wildlife
Have you all seen the new photos of wild pandas World Wildlife Fund just published? Well, most of them aren’t of giant pandas but other neat wildlife their photo traps captured but it’s still exciting to start to learn more about these elusive animals in...
by ddishman | May 19, 2013 | Conservation, Sponsors, Sustainable seafood
As we rev up our PDXSeafood campaign one of our primary supporters, the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Program, has been busy cooking up some sustainable seafood support down in California! Their annual event, Cooking for Solutions, is a 3-day celebration...
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 | May 6, 2013 | Around PDX, Conservation, Crested Gibbon, wildlife
Julia Ruppell, now officially Dr. Julia Ruppell, defended her dissertation work on white-cheeked crested gibbons in May. She will be taking about a year to write up the results and get them published but here’s a snap shot of what she was studying. The...
by Meg | Apr 4, 2013 | Conservation, Endangered Species, Internship, Panda, Science, wildlife
It’s been a week since I’ve arrived in China and I already feel as though it has been the experience of a lifetime. I arrived in Ya’An on the 20th of March feeling extremely jet-lagged from the almost 3 day trip but within a couple of days was right on track and...
by Meghan | Sep 27, 2011 | Conservation
This is a new and upcoming topic (well it’s been around for a while but just now gaining momentum in the media). I think for a few decades now zoos have really struggled with “where are we going, and what are we doing” as organizations. In their...
