Learn about Red Pandas at Greensboro Science Center
Welcome to the Greensboro Science Center
We are super excited to have guests out again this
year for another Red Panda Day
It will be September 20th from 9 until 1 in
our lower zoo
Part of it will be right here around our Red
panda exhibit
This is just an exciting event every year for guests
to come out and learn about red panda conservation how
they can help and what the Science Center is actually
doing to help with that process as well
Red pandas are probably one of our more charismatic species
that we have here at the Science Center because they
are just so cute
They are roughly the size of a house cat but
they are so fuzzy
Everything about them from their big ears to their beautiful
coloring just invites people in to be excited about them
So it's just a natural thing to want to talk
about them and why not talk about conservation with them
at the same time
So red pandas are endangered in their native habitat
There are potentially less than 10,000 total in the entirety
of their range
The hard part is that we don't actually know for
sure how many are left because they are so elusive
So part of the joy of having red pandas here
at the Science Center is that they get to serve
as those ambassadors to their species in the wild
So we have a really great conservation department here run
by our VP of conservation and research
Part of the conservation efforts that we do is we
actually send funds to groups that are doing on the
ground conservation work
So while we can't necessarily go to Nepal to do
conservation efforts we do send money to help support those
Organizations and that's just one of so many efforts that
we're participating in
Additionally we actually offer our staff an internal grant to
do conservation work and we have sent staff to Nepal
to work with Red Panda Network to actually do that
work on the ground and learn about the efforts that
they do every day to help this endangered species
So Red panda Day is an event for everyone kids
to kids at heart because they are such a charismatic
species everyone can relate to them
So we're going to have activities for kids
We'll have coloring pages chalk station but we'll also have
some things for adults
So we'll have scavenger hunts that you can participate in
And then additionally we always have some
fun takeaways
We sell red panda paintings actually created by our red
pandas here at the Science Center as well as a
little fun extras
We've got enamel pins that are different from last year
so we can create a collector series and all of
that money goes to conservation efforts for red pandas
So there's a little something for everyone
At the event
We would love for everyone to come and join us
again this year for Red Paa Day
It is September 20th from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.
out here in our zoo
Uh you can find out more information on our website
at Greensboroscience.org as well as on our Facebook page
And while you're here we absolutely would love for you
to check out our aquarium the museum and the rest
of our zoo