by Meg | May 16, 2014 | animal, Around PDX, Current Endangered Species News
So tomorrow is endangered species day and in case you want to celebrate all the imperiled species out there here are links to events in the Portland area: The Oregon Zoo (of course) will be celebrating some of our international (think Orangs and Wild Dogs) and...
by Meg | Mar 20, 2014 | Antarctica, Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Marine Mammal, wildlife
Animals amaze me every single day and stories I hear at the zoo sometimes blow me away with an animal’s intense concentration to detail, forward thinking, or surprising humanism. This is one of those stories . . . I just read on National Geographic that one of...
by Meg | Jan 29, 2014 | animal, Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Internship, Panda, Science, Travel, wildlife
We will be returning to China beginning April 12th. Although this trip will not be nearly as long as our previous visits, we hope to accomplish much. We regret not being able to devote more time to our travels, but 2014 seems to be the year to wrap up all of our...
by ddishman | Nov 16, 2013 | Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, grass roots, Science, wildlife
Staff scientist Diana with some of her friends in the town of Salvacion, in the rural Philippine municipality of Busuanga We wanted to take a break from the wildlife today to remember that there is no conservation without a community of support. If you’ve been...
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 | Jun 26, 2013 | Around PDX, Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Science, Sustainable seafood
*Tomorrow our first menus come out! Make sure to comment if you see them!* Did you know that 118 million tons of fish are extracted from oceans each year? Yep that’s a MILLION TONS! And what’s even scarier is that we expect this number to increase by an...
