by Meg | May 9, 2017 | Internship, PDXWildlife |
大家好(Dàjiā hǎo) Hello everyone! My name is Michelle Vohs and I’m very excited to begin my once in a lifetime experience with PDXWildlife in Ya’an, China as a panda intern! I will graduate from the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities with a B.S. in Fisheries and...
by Meg | Jan 11, 2017 | Panda, PDXWildlife |
We’re here! Finally!! And ready to start our reintroduction work! After two days of down time in Chengdu waiting for my suitcase, I was finally able to change into new (i.e. clean) clothes, and Zachary David and I got picked up at 9am this morning to head to...
by Meg | Jan 10, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
We were invited to dinner the other evening and a question came up that I have been hearing more than often- Why did you start PDXWildlife? After realizing that this information is absent from our website, I thought it might be pertinent to give some attention to the...
by Meg | Jan 7, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
As we packed Meghan into her Uber lift for the airport, the 24 degree F. chill began to give way to a light dusting of snow over our Portland, Oregon driveway. However cold it might feel to her now, I fear that she will be frozen to the core when she reaches the...
by Meg | Jan 2, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
Even though I just returned from China, we are preparing to send Meghan off later this week. With reintroduction studies kicking into high gear in Gengda, we are both scrambling to prepare behavioral ethograms and camera equipment as this is new territory for our...
by Meg | Dec 22, 2016 | Panda, PDXWildlife |
PDXWildlife intern Zachary Steele was performing a maternal care observation on Shu Qin and her cub when the mom decided that it wasn’t time to let go just yet. Watch the two videos below to see what happens. They will leave you rooting for the cub- Hold on...
