News and Events

Tres Amigas Hiking the length of South America - heading north from Chaiten

Learn about the wildlands at the southern tip of South America read about the exciting expedition of the Tres Amigas who are hiking the length of South America and collecting information on wildlands and biodiversity for PBI. More...

Harbor Porpoise Videos

You can now view some videos of porpoises swimming through Burrows Pass near Anacortes, WA.

As part of an experiment to test sampling tube designs for western gray squirrels, we made these interesting videos.

Hannah Edwards from the University of Glasgow, Scotland is a new intern studying western gray squirrels. Western gray squirrels have visited some of our tubes already, leaving their long black and white hairs on the sticky tape. One area visited by the squirrels is in the Lower Chewuch River Valley, where volunteers set up tubes during the June 4 workshop. More...

This year our community garden already has huge parsnips, abundant strawberries and a mint patch. As part of our Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture initiative, the community garden was dedicated on 1/10 acre at our Winthrop office. Our staff and some other people in the community are growing a variety of vegetables this summer using sustainable, organic gardening practices. The garden is open to anyone who would like to participate. More...

Six volunteers from Pacific Biodiversity Institute traveled to northwestern Argentina to explore biodiversity and wildlands in March. Peter Morrison was joined by George Wooten, Emily Owen, Nick Engelmann, Bruce Morrison, and Karen Jacobsen on a series of expeditions into uncharted wildlands of Argentina. They braved raging rivers, snowstorms, tropical heat and searing sandstorms to visit ecosystems from subtropical rainforests draped with epiphytes to the thin air of the high Andes. The crew saw amazing wildlife including condors, flamingos, vicunas, guanacos and many reptiles. They will be talking about this for a long time to come.

Peter Morrison, our executive director, spent time in Chile and Argentina visiting with conservation scientists, ecologists, botanists, regional conservation organizations and volunteers. While there, a group of volunteers joined him on a series of expeditions into the deep wilds of Argentina, where the traces of man are few and biodiversity is high.

Western gray squirrel report available

You can read our final 2011 citizen science research report on western gray squirrel distribution in the Upper Methow Valley, by Asako Yamamuro, Kim Romain-Bondi, and Peter Morrison.

Orfa Rodriguez, PBI intern (2003) from Ecuador, was sighted in the cloud forests of Ecuador, along with Peter and board member Aileen Jeffries. Orfa, Peter and Aileen spent a week together exploring Biota Maxima! That is what Ecuador is all about. Orfa presently works as an environmental consultant. She has also worked on environmental/ecological issues for the government.