EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE

This 7 day exciting project takes place at the Ya'an Bifengxia panda base, which is currently home to more than 80 captive pandas. As an Earthwatch team member, you'll have the rare opportunity to monitor and record the daily behavior of the pandas. You'll help prepare and deliver bamboo to the pandas and keep their living area clean. You'll watch and sort videos taken of pandas at the Wolong National Nature Reserve, Bifengxia's sister panda base, where some pandas are being trained for reintroduction into the wild.

Your work will support the long-term goal of reinforcing small and isolated populations of wild pandas in the region through the strategic release of captive pandas. Your experience will last a lifetime, and it could help the giant panda population for even longer than that.

Here is the summary of what you'll be doing:

Day 1: Rendezvous, arrive at Ya’an
Day 2: Arrive at Bifengxia, training
Day 3: Training, observation of panda behavior
Days 4-6: Daily activities include:
• Observing pandas
• Managing video data
• Caring for pandas
Day 7: Departure

For further details on the expedition, please do not hesitate to contact us!