Saving Species
Our Mission
Protect and restore species and habitat diversity for future generations through our local and global wildlife conservation initiatives.
Our Work
Priorities, Research, Engagement

Giant Panda

Taylor's Checkerspot

Internships

Male-Male Competition

Operations

Maternal Care
What We Do
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Research
We develop and conduct innovative in situ and ex situ wildlife research to identify critical conservation issues and provide creative solutions to managers and fellow scientists.
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Internships
We train promising young scientists through our intensive internship programs and educate local communities on actions they can take to conserve and benefit from their natural resources.
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Applied Biology
We focus our research to answer specific pressing questions imperiled species are encountering and incorporate the newest innovations and cutting edge research into our conservation projects.
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Integration
We integrate the above techniques to implement focused conservation initiatives at the LOCAL level that promote and support wildlife, habitat, and biodiversity conservation at the GLOBAL level.
Who We Are
Meghan Martin, PhD
Director
Meagan Gombart
Communications/Outreach Manager
Katie Zajac
Research Associate
Sharon Glaeser
Conservation Biologist
What’s Happening Now?
Spending the Fall in China: Fall Panda Intern Kim Render
We are so happy to welcome Kim Render as our Panda Fall intern! Kim will be continuing the personality and stereotypical...
Panda of the Week: Gong Zhu
Things have been getting interesting here at Bi Feng Xia. So far, four females have given birth and the cub count is up to...
Oregon Zoo Asian elephant study published!
I'm super excited! I just published my second paper for the year - "Investigation of individual and group variability in...
Melting polar ice and the plight of the polar bear
I subscribe to Polar Bears International e-newsletter and I loved the latest letter for June that explained why losing...
The First Babies have arrived!
Everyone at the base has been busy the last couple of weeks preparing for the arrival of the first panda cubs: All the...
Panda of the Week: Mei Sheng
I started the panda “personality” study last week and I have been introducing a basketball into the pandas’ enclosures and...
Support ODFW while buying stamps!
One of the wonderful scientists on our advisory board, Anne Warner, just sent this around to me and so I thought I'd...
Here’s to Lonesome George
I'm sure you've all heard that Lonesome George, the Pinta Island giant tortoise thought to be the last of his subspecies,...
Panda of the week: Yao Yuan
I have been studying the stereotypic activities of the pandas here at Bi Feng Xia for the past several weeks, keeping...
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