by Meg | Feb 14, 2012 | Environmental Impact, Panda
Giant Pandas were first introduced to the West in 1869 when a panda pelt and skeleton were sent to Paris by the French zoologist and priest, Father Armand David. Long before Western cultures embraced the lovable black and white panda, they were a staple figure in...
by Meg | Feb 11, 2012 | Environmental Impact, Panda |
As part of our studies while we are here in China, we are collecting samples of bamboo at the CCRCGP Panda Base and analyzing for total mercury concentrations. Analyzing for mercury turns out to be the easy part. It’s identifying the bamboo species which can...
by Meg | Feb 6, 2012 | Panda |
We arrived in Chengdu at 11pm on February 2nd (after 24 hours of grueling airplane travel with a 2 year old and 11 bags of luggage filled with research equipment). Chengdu is about 2 hours by car outside of Ya’an city, so a driver had to come and pick us up on...
by Meg | Jan 23, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Panda
Read this fabulous NPR article on the work of George Schaller who wrote the book The Last Panda. Schallers’ work showed for the first time that the panda population wasn’t decreasing due to cyclic bamboo grooves providing an unreliable food source but...
by Meg | Jan 16, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Panda |
A big welcome to Huan Huan & Yuan Zi! The giant pandas are arriving at ZooParc de Beauval in France today on loan from Chengdu Panda Research Base. Go take a look at their last couple of hours in Chengdu and the beautiful pictures from their farewell ceremony. ...
by Meg | Jan 9, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Panda
If you missed it in early December, the Edinburgh Zoo just received Tian Tian and Yang Guang from China (read the full story at the BBC). Last year while we were in China the CCRCGP was all abuzz with getting this breeding pair ready to leave, which meant that we got...
