by Meg | Dec 5, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
As I pack our video and audio equipment into boxes, there are some bittersweet feelings in the air here at Bifengxia. We’ve been tip-toeing around the fact that the CCRCGP breedings will now take place at Gengda. Which, at this point, means that we will need to...
by Meg | Dec 1, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
With full access to the bears at Bifengxia, PDXWildlife can, most of the time, grab a few photos of the public access bears for anybody who asks. One such request came from a loyal Facebook follower who has been very patient with us. So, during my lunch break, I...
by Meg | Nov 29, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
Ya’an still isn’t awake as we leave the apartment at 6:30 am to grab some breakfast before heading up the hill to Bifengxia. Our typical meal consists of meat or mushroom dumplings and warm soy milk in bowls, usually costing about 0.85 cents. The...
by Meg | Nov 23, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
Happy Thanksgiving from everyone at PDXWildlife. It’s been a great year so far and its about to get a little more exciting as Nate leaves for China on Saturday to welcome and train the Fall interns at Bifengxia. For the past few weeks our office has busily...
by Meg | Sep 7, 2017 | PDXWildlife
It has been quite a month in Gengda so far! Between working with reintroduction candidates in both Hetaoping and Tiantaishan, we are kept very busy. In each of the reintroduction enclosures, we have been placing four camera traps in a circle around a certain...
by Meg | Aug 24, 2017 | PDXWildlife, Science |
With some incredibly humid and hot weather over the last few days, we welcomed Katie, Katelin, & Hallie to our Bifengxia panda research program. Even though our sweaty handshakes would set the pace for the next few days, each of the interns have been hitting the...
