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Wild Spot’s Panda Partner Program
including free travel for volunteers under the age of 17 with a $500 Administrative Panda Charge
This is an introduction to an exciting and innovative new program we are offering for parents and students ages 11-17... traveling to China and volunteering in the Bi Feng Xia Panda Park near Chengdu to take care of the Giant Panda during the summer of 2011. Students can travel for only $500 - please see details and restrictions.
Wild Spots Foundation is even in the process of adopting our own Panda. So, there is a special purpose of helping to save our own endangered species, feeding it, cleaning it, taking photos of it, and even naming it!
• Open to ages 11-17
– Only “rule” each minor must have one accompanying adult
– There must be at least one relative who is the responsible party for “international traveling with minors” regulations
• http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/minors/minors_834.html
• http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/content/child-travel.aspx
Panda Partner’s Duties and Responsibilities
• To meet and greet Wild Spots Foundation’s adopted Panda, name unknown as of now.
• Help us submit names for the adopted panda
• Travel to China in the summer of 2011
– Meet our adoptee
– Feed, deliver bamboo, water, clean its enclosure
– Meet with its Chinese handlers
– Become a fan of Facebook and Twitter to support the Panda after returning home
• Your duties and reponsibilities when returning home
- Take lots of photos to share with friends around the world
- Have your photos become part of our Panda Partners Online Photo Exhibit
- Sponsor Panda Parties in your neighborhood
Join us on an incredible journey!
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While in Chengdu you will visit the Jinsha Ruins, temples, monistaries, museums, and another panda area. The Jinsha Ruins is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Sichuan Province. Many archaeologists believe the Jinsha Ruins might well have been the political, economic and cultural center of Chengdu after the decline of the Sanxingdui civilization. You will visit Sichuan Museum with a collection of 160000 items of antiques. In the afternoon you will tour Wenshu Monastery built in the 17th century and Green-ram Abbey first built more than 1000 years ago, one of the well-known Taoist temples in China. After hot pot dinner, you will enjoy the mask-changing show of Sichuan Opera.
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Economic benefits derived from the Yangtze Basin include tourism, subsistence fisheries and agriculture, transport, hydropower and water resources. The survival of the panda and the protection of its habitat will ensure that people living in the region continue to reap ecosystem benefits for many generations.
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The Chinese government has established over 50 panda reserves, protecting more than 2.5 million acres - over 45 percent of remaining giant panda habitat – protecting more than 60 percent of the population. The panda’s habitat in the Yangtze Basin eco-region is shared by both pandas and millions of people who use the region's natural resources. This eco-region is the geographic and economic heart of China. It is also critical for biodiversity conservation. Its diverse habitats contain many rare, endemic and endangered flora and fauna, the best known being the giant panda.
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| The Panda Kindergarten is an open classroom where our Panda learns about playing nicely. | |||||||||
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1000-1500 pandas are estimated in the wild and they do not hibernate. 160-180 pandas are in zoos and reproductive centers, mostly in China. Ninety-five to ninety-nine percent of the pandas' diet is bamboo, they also eat flowers, vines, mushroom, grass, fish, and small rodents. Pandas spend up to 16 hours a day eating. Fully grown, they reach the height of 5-6 feet. Males weigh 240-270 lbs, females 220-240 lbs. Pandas have six fingers, two of which are thumbs (called pseudothumbs ).
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For 25 years Wild Spots Foundation has involved young people (11-17) in a variety of environmental issues, including saving and protecting endangered and threatened species. One of our areas of involved is the Wolong (now in Ya’an) Panda program in China. We have just reached an agreement with the Panda Center in Bifengxia Panda Center near Ya’an to host our Foundation’s Panda Partner Program to adopt our own special Panda just for members of Wild Spots Foundation.
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Wild Spots Foundation's Panda Partners program is open to ages 11-17. Each Partner will be expected to help feed and clean our adopted panda or one of his brothers or sisters at the Bi Feng Xia Panda Base in Ya’an, as well as participate is a series of nature photography exercises. The cost of the nine day program, 4&5 star hotel accommodations in Chendu, 3 night stay in a 1000 year old village, and youth orientated activities is $5990 for one adult with one volunteer under the age of 17 traveling for a $500 registration fee and includes r/t air from either JFK or LAX, all lodging (4 & 5 star), most food, entrance fees, Panda volunteer fees, ground transportation. We will also visit the Giant Panda Reproductive Center in Chengdu, attend an authentic Chinese Opera and visit temples, markets, and other places of interests. Adults are charged $5990 and the Panda Partner is charged $500. Additional Panda Partners are charged $3500 with a limit of three Partners (under 17) traveling with one adult parent/relative/legal representative.
