by Meg | May 20, 2014 | Around PDX, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Internship, Science, Sustainable seafood, wildlife
Diana and I are excited to kick off another season of recruiting restaurants to the PDXSeafood program – it’s been slow going but we’ve contributed this to our inability to make face-to-face contact with Portland restaurants. This year we wizened up...
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 Meg | Jan 3, 2014 | Conservation, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Sustainable seafood
This is a call to action for all Portlanders! Go download our restaurant recruitment cards and start leaving them at all your favorite seafood restaurants. Our goal is to get 10 new restaurants on board by the end of May!! . . . Maybe you all can make it 50 or 100!...
by Meg | Dec 30, 2013 | Conservation, Endangered Species, Internship, Panda, Science, wildlife |
Grace left Bi Feng Xia right before Thanksgiving here in the states. Her departure marked the official end of data collection on our panda project. There’s a little bit of sadness in seeing this project wrap up as I’ve had so much fun with it! (I promise...
by Meg | Nov 6, 2013 | Conservation, Endangered Species, Internship, Panda |
You’ll remember that Fun Fact #1 was about the panda bears bamboo diet. Here’s fun fact #2! Fun Fact #2: Giant Pandas have an extended wrist bone that acts like an opposable thumb [1] The pseudo thumb of the giant panda has to be one of evolutions...
