In Search of an Elusive Echidna
Paul Barnes is a fresh-faced PhD student from the Institute of Zoology. He is passionate, well-spoken and has devoted himself to what some people…
Forgotten species featured in fashion collection
Four top priority EDGE species have been highlighted in a unique fashion collection, Simply Rare, which features the long-beaked echidna, slender loris, saiga antelope,…
Amazing new species in Papua’s “Lost World”
During a follow up visit to the Foja Mountains of Papua, scientists from Conservation International and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences have recently announced…
Search for Attenborough’s echidna (Part 6)
When I heard the birds of paradise calling I knew it was time to get up. As I stumbled out of my tent it…
Search for Attenborough’s echidna (Part 5)
We offered Wandi a place in the tent, but he preferred to sleep by the camp fire. I don’t think he slept much as…
Search for Attenborough's echidna (Part 4)
We quickly moved over to inspect what the hunter described as a “Payangko feeding hole”. Immediately the hunters agreed that this is where an…
Search for Attenborough’s echidna (Part 3)
Just before landing, one of the passengers, named Mr Paulus Ormuseray told me that he had seen an echidna at about 200m elevation in…
Search for Attenborough’s echidna (Part 2)
As we were landing in Jayapura I could see the Cyclops mountain range dramatically rising from the sea. Dense tropical forest covered a series…
Search for Attenborough’s echidna (Part 1)
In May of 2007 the EDGE team sent out a preliminary research expedition to search for Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (a remarkable small spiny egg-laying…
Co-ordinators blog
It’s been a fairly quite week here in the EDGE office, as many of the team are still away on fieldwork. Sam and Helen…
Conservation update
The EDGE team is getting ready to put theory into practice, with our forthcoming research and conservation expeditions. Thanks to your generous donations we…