Sept-Dec 2007 August 2007 March-July 2007 Jan-Feb 2007 December 2006 November 2006 Sept-Oct 2006 August 2006Mission
The Red Panda Project is committed to protecting the red panda and preserving its habitat through the empowerment of local communities by adaptive community-based research, education, and sustainable development.
Vision
The Red Panda Project ensures the survival of the red panda and its habitat for future generations to study, experience and enjoy.
The Need
The red panda and its habitat are endangered due to conversion of forest to farms and pastures by overgrazing. The Red Panda Project creates innovative alternatives that increase the probability of survival of the red panda.
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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