by Meg | Apr 10, 2015 | animal, Conservation, Education, Endangered Species, Internship, Panda, Science, wildlife
Yesterday I was reading a book from the Base and I learned many interesting stories about Pandas. I thought it will be a nice topic to write about, so here is the first story of many: “The Panda and the fashion designer”: Do you know who was the first person to take...
by Meg | Mar 31, 2015 | Endangered Species, Panda, Science, Travel, wildlife |
I promised Frances that I’d get some pictures of Su Lin and her new baby while in China. Little did I know that this request would be harder to fulfill than I originally thought! We left Ya’an on the 10th, stopped at the Dujiangyan giant panda base for...
by Meg | Mar 23, 2015 | Internship, Panda
As Nate mentioned with his fabulous video, our 2015 season started off with a bang! We’re so happy to be back doing what we love; traveling to China and watching pandas mate. Though one of the hardest seasons to be an intern (the workload is heavy, the...
by Meg | Mar 19, 2015 | animal, Conservation, Education, Endangered Species, Internship, Panda, photography, Projects, Science, Travel, wildlife
Meghan and I just returned from Ya’an, Sichuan, China- A little jet lagged, but very excited to have Ryan and Maria, our two new winter interns, continuing the panda behavioral research. Both interns received a warm welcome from the people of Ya’an, and we...
by Meg | Jan 21, 2015 | Internship, Panda, Science |
As I mentioned in our earlier post introducing Ryan Boarman we’ve been lucky enough to increase our internship program with our new panda projects. Not only will Ryan be traveling to China in about one month, but Maria Blanco Perez will also be joining us!...
by Meg | Jan 6, 2015 | Internship, Panda
We are excited to announce that our Summer 2015 Panda Internship is now open. The interns will focus on collecting personality profiles through behavioral analysis on the bears. We will be accepting two interns who will live in Ya’an, Sichuan, China. The...
