What a busy Friday I had! My fellow panda friends from
Borestone, Middleton Park and St. Ninian’s and some pupils visited Edinburgh Zoo to learn about the giant pandas and find out about the work being done by the staff at the zoo to protect and research about them. They were lucky enough to see both Yang Guang and Tian Tian. They learned that us Pandas can eat 40kg of bamboo a day and that there are two separate enclosures as they might not get along if they we’re put in together!
We hope the pupils have been inspired by their visit to go back to their schools and find out more about conservation issues in their local environments. I’m looking forward to seeing citizen science activities they’re taking part in; collecting data and using that data and passing it on to scientists. Some schools will be using the OPAL surveys to learn about air, soil and water quality in their school grounds and others will be using the BRISC surveys to investigate biodiversity.
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Patrick the Panda
Category Archives: Doune
We’re at the zoo!
Doune Nursery has a visitor!
The Panda Reporters are on the move!
Strange sightings were reported at Glasgow Airport this morning… 5 shadowy figures, each carrying a stick of bamboo were spotted at the arrivals gate in the early hours of the morning!
Have you seen them?
Where are they going?
They were carrying magnifying glasses, notebooks and pencils – looks like they’ve come here to find out what young people in Scotland are learning about our environment!