New fellows from around the world joined the EDGE team in Costa Rica. Over four weeks, they were trained in conservation biology, ecological monitoring, social surveying and action planning.

The 2013 cohort of EDGE Fellows attended a two week Conservation Leadership training course at ZSL to provide them with the skills necessary to scale up their projects following the end of their fellowship.

The successful completion of the Horton plains slender loris project to re-establish ecological corridors, led by Saman Gamage, has planted 5245 native tree saplings across 4.2ha. Read about it here.

From 2014 the Hooded Grebe sees a marked improvement in breeding success, thanks to conservation efforts by EDGE Fellow Kini Roesler and his team in Patagonia. The introduction of a mink control programme and protection of breeding grebe colonies contribute to the success.

The IUCN Xenarthan Specialist Group, including EDGE Fellow Diorene Smith, were instrumental in formalising the listing of the pygmy sloth on CITIES Appendix II.

EDGE Fellow Sylvanna Antat forms the Seychelles first all-female marine patrol team.

A new project in the Seychelles is launched, focusing on multiple EDGE species: Seychelles sheath-tailed bat, sooglossid frogs (including Sooglossus sechellensis, pictured), Cooper’s black caecilian, and five EDGE coral species.

Our three-year Darwin Initiative funded project culminated in a stakeholder workshop to develop national conservation strategies for the Hispaniolan solenodon and hutia.