by Meg | Jul 12, 2013 | Panda |
Here’s the next panda for all you panda aficionados out there. First one to get it right gets a window decal of our logo! I’ll post the answer at the end of the month. – Meg
by Meg | Jul 12, 2013 | Conservation, Education, Grass Roots Programs, Internship
While working as a carpet cleaner Ed was unsatisfied with explaining to customers that stains cannot be removed and; as an electronics salesperson was unenthusiastic about steering shoppers’ impulse purchases to products with higher profit margins. Ed decided to go...
by Meg | Jul 10, 2013 | Internship, Panda |
As is typical of our internship program, Amelie’s first week proved to be very busy filled with inter-observer reliability tests, tours of Ya’An, and a meeting with a Pambassador, Jérôme Pouille! If you aren’t aware of Pambassadors, they’re...
by Meg | Jun 26, 2013 | Around PDX, Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Science, Sustainable seafood
*Tomorrow our first menus come out! Make sure to comment if you see them!* Did you know that 118 million tons of fish are extracted from oceans each year? Yep that’s a MILLION TONS! And what’s even scarier is that we expect this number to increase by an...
by Meg | Jun 24, 2013 | Around PDX, Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Environmental Impact, Sustainable seafood
As our first menus appear this week I thought it would be an awesome idea to start a blog conversation about sustainable seafood and why we should care. Throughout the week I’ll be highlighting the four major reasons we should all be concerned about eating...
by Meg | Jun 22, 2013 | Conservation, Endangered Species, Panda, Science, wildlife |
Since starting the personality studies, I’ve noticed that each panda approaches the enrichment items differently. I’ve seen pandas swat at the basketball or pick the ball up to hold it, and I’ve seen a panda place her paw on a piece of ice and rub it back and forth...
by ddishman | Jun 17, 2013 | Around PDX, Sustainable seafood |
PDXWildlife is excited to announce that the first of our PDXSeafood logos are scheduled to roll out on restaurant menus next week! We’re so proud! So keep an eye out for these fish the next time you’re out to eat: Planning to go on a sustainable seafood...
by Meg | Jun 16, 2013 | animal, Panda |
Inspired by the San Diego Zoo’s “Guess that animal” feed on twitter and our little mistaken identity of a panda on our last panda blog post, we decided all you panda fans out there needed a challenge. The challenge: Be the first commenter to...
by Meg | Jun 14, 2013 | Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Panda, wildlife
I don’t know if I mentioned this earlier (we didn’t know how hush, hush this project was so were hesitant to publish anything on the blog), but National Geographic and Sky 3D were at the breeding center this winter filming an exciting new 3D panda movie!...
by Meg | Jun 10, 2013 | Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, Internship, Panda, Science, wildlife |
I started the personality study a couple of weeks ago and so far every panda has had a different reaction to the novel objects. Other than deflating the basketball, Hai Zi showed little interest in either of the novel objects. Xin Nier interacted with most of the...
