Help me help the pandas!! :-)

eyejacker

OK, so here goes....

I was not sure which forum page to post this at so I hope here is OK.

My girlfriend really loves pandas... They are by far her favorite animal, and she collects all sorts of quirky panda stuff!! :-)

Last summer I took her to see a panda up close for the first time, and she was really happy. His name was Bao Bao and he was a resident of the Berlin zoo. Conveniently for me, Pearl Jam were playing Berlin at the same time..........

I just got word that about a month after we met Bao Bao, he sadly died. I broke the news to my girlfriend and she was really sad.

Anyway, to get to the point, I want to adopt a panda for her, as a gift!! :-)
The best package I found was from the Smithsonian Zoo at Washington D.C. http://nationalzoo.si.edu/support/adoptspecies/animalinfo/giantpanda/default.cfm but the only problem is that they don't send the packages to Europe due to their shipping policy.

Would anyone be willing to get this shipped to their house in the States or Canada and then ship it to me to Greece? If anyone uses the post office regularly and would be willing to do this, both the pandas and my girlfriend would be very grateful!! Of course I will PayPal the $ in advance.

Thanks!
Nick

:-)

Pjzepp67

Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland has adoption packages for their Giant Pandas and many other deserving animals if this is any help to you and your good lady...

eyejacker

Thanks Pjzepp67!!
Edinburgh Zoo is a great choice and I've looked into that.
The Pandacam has been on non stop for the past week... It's awesome!! :-)
http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/pandacam.html

I think the Smithsonian package is what she'd want though... Of course at the end of the day I will adopt one from any good facility, because the adoption is the whole point, but I thought I'd give it a shot here for what I think she'd like.

Pap

Good luck with that Niko! I can help you adopt a monk seal if you wish (I am a MOm volunteer). Have a look here: http://www.mom.gr/displayITM1.asp?ITMID=228. By the way, on behalf of all the animals out there, thank you for doing this!

Pjzepp67

Just checked the "Pandacam"...as you say, awesome...good luck.

Hairy Dane

Good luck and how very nice of you to do this.
But why not go with the WWF thing http://gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-cen ... Panda.aspx ... ?
And yes Bao Bao was a sight, as far as I recall wasn't he a gift from China to West Germany? ...

eyejacker

Thanks Panagioti... Nice to see that we're helping the seals. It's a shame the minimum donation is 100 Euro though... Do they accept less if you don't want the full package?

Hairy Dane, thanks for the advice. WWF was the obvious place to go to in the beginning, but I realised that then we would not know where to go to visit her "adopted" panda... So I thought a zoo would be better.

Bao Bao was indeed a gift from China to West Germany. He lived to be 34 years old.. Pandas in the wild live for around 15-20 years. By living so much longer in captivity, there are more chances for them to reproduce and help keep the species from going extinct.

Here's a photo I took of Bao Bao:



And here is my gf taking a video of him:




...so long friend!! Hope there's lots of bamboo in panda heaven!!

Pjzepp67

A beautiful creature indeed...such a beast for man to pin his hopes and aspirations on...and the panda is quite nice too... :fp:

eyejacker

Pjzepp67 wrote:

A beautiful creature indeed...such a beast for man to pin his hopes and aspirations on...and the panda is quite nice too... :fp:

:fp:

Pap

eyejacker wrote:

Thanks Panagioti... Nice to see that we're helping the seals. It's a shame the minimum donation is 100 Euro though... Do they accept less if you don't want the full package?

I'm not so sure, but I think you cannot adopt a monk seal for less than 100 euros. You can always contact them via e-mail and ask them. If you really want to help the #1 endangered species in the Mediterranean Sea, you can also make a donation via PayPal (http://www.mom.gr/displayITM1.asp?ITMID=176). The amount of money is of course up to you.

SD48277

pm sent

eyejacker

Looks like I'm in luck!!
THANK YOU

Now if anyone else can adopt an animal, you will be doing a great deal of good!!

I knew I could count on my fellow 10C members!!!

Thank you once again, to SD48277 and to everyone else who took an interest!!

Hairy Dane

Cool! ... Good luck with your new panda

morello

Wow! Pandacam is amazing!! So cool! Very odd but very cool. Yay SD!!

I hope your girlfriend loves her panda gift & that is very cool she got to meet Bao Bao before he passed.

eyejacker

Thanks everyone!
Will post reaction when received...

In the meantime, little panda is out and about today, eating bamboo as usual!
http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/pandacam.html

Pap

Cute! :P

lukin2006

Toronto Zoo

Pjzepp67

Damn you eyejacker...we are now hooked on the Pandacam tooo !

eyejacker

Pjzepp67 wrote:

Damn you eyejacker...we are now hooked on the Pandacam tooo !

Look at him go!!!!
nom nom nom nom nom

:corn:

eyejacker

lukin2006 wrote:

Toronto Zoo

That's a fine lookin' animal you've got there!!


C'mon peeps, adopt a species!!!

eyejacker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGF6bOi1NfA

Check these little guys out!!

Pap

:thumbup:

Pap

Fokionas

eyejacker

Pap wrote:

Fokionas

:thumbup:

That is really cool!! :-)

Jason P

If you are adopting a panda, make sure you buy a shit ton of bamboo.

I'd also check with the landlord to make sure he is OK with a panda roaming around. :geek:

eyejacker

Jason P wrote:

If you are adopting a panda, make sure you buy a shit ton of bamboo.

I'd also check with the landlord to make sure he is OK with a panda roaming around. :geek:

:wave:
Apparently they also eat ice cream, and the landlord already has two, so I'm covered!!

eyejacker

Jason P

The average giant panda eats as much as 9 to 14 kg (20 to 30 lb) of bamboo shoots a day. Given this large diet, the giant panda can defecate up to 40 times a day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda

Add a giant pooper scooper to the shopping list as well. :shock:

eyejacker

There were OOOOOOOH 's and there were AAAAAAAAA' s
Big smiles all around!!!

THE PANDA HAS LANDED


A HUGE (literally) THANK YOU to SD48277 from my girlfriend!!
I'm sure she will send you a little thank you back

It actually arrived here on my birthday, yesterday, and I ended up being a bit of a hobbit and handed out presents on my birthday... (I also bought my dad the new Black Sabbath CD yesterday )

The community here is awesome!! Thank you all very much...
Now go help some wildlife!!

Pjzepp67

Uber-cool x2...pandas and Black Sabbath...

Happy Birthday

SD48277

Yay!

You are very welcome!! Glad to help out.