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News Archive: Jan-Feb 2007


FEBRUARY 27, 2007

RPP Helps in Discovery Channel Website

The Red Panda Project helped Discovery Channel with its new website, Planet Earth, which focuses on information on Himalayan species and the Red Panda. We are mentioned in the "Outlook" section for Red Panda (Habitats > Mountains > Red Panda Photo > Outlook).

Check it out and enjoy the fun!

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Community Awareness

In December, The Red Panda Project hired 18 new staff for Project Punde Kundo, our community-based red panda monitoring and awareness program. For this project we are working in 8 community forests in 4 villages. In each community forest we have hired two - "forest guardians" - that will monitor the forest monthly and serve as a community liason for red panda.

We have finished the first stage of the project, creating permanent transects and training the "forest guardians" how to conduct these transects in each community forest. The second stage is training them how to conduct "community awareness" camps with their respective community forests. We look at the "forest guardians" as the key and base for our creation of the PIT Red Panda Community Conservation Area, the world's first protected area dedicated to red panda.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Naveen and Sunil

On a sad note, on Feburary 20, 2007, our RPN-Nepal staff, Naveen Mahato, RPN-Nepal - Research Coordinator and Sunil KC, RPN-Nepal Project Pude Kundo coordinator, as well as a RPN fellow researcher, Pooja Pant, were in a fatal bus accident on the way to our field site in Ilam district of eastern Nepal. Luckily, none of our colleagues were seriously hurt and will recover. They are in our thoughts and prayers.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Letters From Kids

See the mail that we received from kids. Keep them coming in!

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