Superhero Sunday: The Top 10 Superpowers of EDGE Species Part 2/2
Welcome back to Superhero Sunday here at EDGE! Last week we met a salamander who can go ten years without eating, a bird…
Superhero Sunday: The Top 10 Superpowers of EDGE Species Part 1/2
Who loves superheroes? We all love superheroes! From Spiderman to the Avengers to Batman to the Fantastic Four to Ant-Man, superheroes are flooding popular…
Website diary – My Mongolian adventure
Drinking fermented horses milk, racing alongside camels and being deserted in the world’s fifth largest desert. It might not sound like everyone’s cup of…
Create Your Own EDGE Species
In partnership with EDGE, Mozilla Thimble has built the Awesome Animal Builder project, where you can create your own EDGE species by ‘remixing’ different…
Species of the Week: Bactrian Camel
The only true wild camels that still exist are Bactrian camels (Camelus ferus). This species can survive in one of the most hostile environments…
Passion and Fashion: Gabby’s Going ‘Wild’ for EDGE
Gabby Wagner (aka Gabby Wild) has walked an extraordinary path to get where she is today. Currently a veterinary student at Cornell University in…
Population assessment of Mongolian ungulates
From the 18th to the 30th of November 2009, Adiya (Bactrian Camel EDGE Fellow) and Henry (Steppe Forward Programme Co-ordinator) participated in the Mongolian…
Public awareness education in China
EDGE Fellow Yuan Lei has sent this update on public awareness educational campaigns which were run by staff from the Lop Nur Wild Camel…
Observation in north-east of Lop Nur Reserve
Yuan Lei, one of two EDGE Fellows working on the wild Bactrian camel, tells us here about the environment he encountered during an observation…
Hay crisis at Zakhyn-Us camel breeding centre
We have just received the following appeal from John Hare at the Wild Camel Protection Foundation, with whom we work for the conservation of…
Wild camel surveys in China
Yuan Lei, the EDGE Fellow we support to study the Critically Endangered Bactrian camel in China, has been carrying out his usual monitoring surveys…
Four Bactrian camel calves born
Earlier this year our Mongolian EDGE Fellow working on the Bactrian camel, Adiya, and John Hare from the Wild Camel Protection Foundation (WCPF) visited…
Bactrian camel update – Field expedition to Gobi B
Adiya is our Mongolian EDGE Fellow studying the wild Bactrian camel. From the 19th to 28th April this year he went on an expedition…
Surveying wild Bactrian camels in China
Yuanlei, our Chinese EDGE Fellow, recently sent us this update of his work on the Critically Endangered Bactrian camel, just before he headed out…