My ultimate dream of meeting a red panda was realized in 2015 when my husband and I visited New Zealand's Auckland Zoo. I cannot describe the joy I felt in that moment, but it was so profound that, since then, I have been trying to find a way to devote a portion of my life to these amazing animals. While on a roadtrip with my sister and our children this spring, a crazy idea came to me--I would find every red panda in the continental United States and I would visit them. Part of this project will be research and interviews to learn as much as I can about how the red pandas are faring in captiv... full info