by crestedgibbon | Mar 11, 2012 | Crested Gibbon
It is 6 am and the sun is barely creeping up through the trees. A sound much like a siren sidles into my consciousness waking me in my tent. The sound grows louder and the frequencies increase as the minutes go by. After several minutes, cacophony erupts and branches...
by Meg | Mar 11, 2012 | Panda
I know you guys have been breathlessly awaiting the “panda a week” post. Sorry it’s ca little longer than a week! I promised last week that I’d feature a male panda this week and what better male panda than Bai Yang? His name means...
by Meg | Mar 4, 2012 | Panda |
Well this morning was a busy one at the breeding center. It looks like over the weekend all the female giant pandas decided to go into estrous at once. The hormones and behaviors of 8 females are increasing. That means that this week and next week will be very busy...
by crestedgibbon | Mar 2, 2012 | Crested Gibbon |
Hi Everyone! It is the hot season and it is HOT (in the 90s F) and dry and dusty, a big change from the rainy season when I started my field work. I have had some personnel changes over the past month. My village guide Tsing had to go work in the fields with his...
by Meg | Feb 29, 2012 | Misc., Panda, Sponsors, Travel |
Hurray for me!! We finally got the panda cameras installed and working (with quite a bit of technical support from Rob Cleminson at VideoSurveillance.com). I really cannot say too many wonderful things about their team! Even in China they were emailing me at 10pm...
by Meg | Feb 28, 2012 | coal, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution |
The other afternoon I managed to convince a local restaurant owner to drive me to several coal brick production facilities here in Ya’an. These shops, which are often in the middle of town are simply redistributors of the same coal that is mined near the...
by Meg | Feb 26, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact |
I am so glad that Julia wrote this post as I was about to write a similar post about moon bears here in China. As Julia mentioned, the largest threat to endangered wildlife here in China (most of Asia it appears) is the illegal wildlife trade. Like Loas,...
by Meg | Feb 24, 2012 | coal, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Travel |
One of the first things you notice when arriving in China is the amount of smog that sits in the air around its cities. Ya’an is considered small in regards to Shanghai or Beijing with a population of 1.5 million, but it’s no exception to the dense clouds...
by Meg | Feb 23, 2012 | Panda |
Since the pandas aren’t going into estrous just yet and I have a bit of down time on my hands I thought maybe you guys would enjoy learning about a different panda every week I’m here. This week, meet Mei Qing. She’s a little quirky and a little...
by crestedgibbon | Feb 20, 2012 | Crested Gibbon |
One of the biggest threats to the survival of remaining wildlife in Southeast Asia is the illegal wildlife trade. Wildlife is sought after for many reasons but the most apparent is for traditional medicines. The most gruesome traditional medicines are bear bile and...
