Thai zoo panda gives birth

Ecotravel News was pleased to hear that the female panda from the Chiang Mai Zoo in Thailand gave birth.

The Huffington Post reports on the new female cub (picture right). The birth was a surprise but the mother is taking care of her cub well. The Thai panda program had been trying to breed the two pandas on loan from China unsuccessfully for years. At one point they even tried showing the animals videos of other pandas breeding to get them in the mood. This cub was born via artificial insemination.

Ecotravel News' "about me" picture is at this panda exhibit and one of the pandas is eating bamboo in the background. We also did a video about how they make paper souvenirs out of the pandas dung.

Read the full story: Surprise panda cub welcomed in Thailand

Old Faithful is not a toilet

The Huffington Post's Green blog reports on the firing of two Yellowstone National Park workers for using the iconic Old Faithful geyser as a urinal.

The seasonal concession workers were caught relieving themselves into the geyser on webcam and were subsequently dismissed and barred from the park.

Read the full story: 2 Yellowstone workers fired