Great month for EDGE Fellows!
This month EDGE are thrilled to announce another new EDGE Fellow : Grace Wambui Ngaruiya. Hi my name is Grace Wambui Ngaruiya and I live in…
Monitoring of Wild Bactrian camels
Our Mongolian EDGE Fellow Adiya has just sent us a blog on the project he has been working on in collaboration with researchers from the Denver…
Another new EDGE Fellow!
EDGE recently welcomed another new EDGE Fellow to the Team: Vijitha Perera from Sri Lanka. Vijitha will be focussing his project on the Slender loris. Here…
Nick Baker blogs for EDGE!
After a life time of waiting for the opportunity it finally came last year. I got to meet one of the most bizarre and…
Meet our new resident frog-blogger
My name’s Darren Naish: my technical training is in vertebrate palaeontology (I actually specialise on the study of Lower Cretaceous predatory dinosaurs), but I’m…
Photocall for cryptic pygmy hippos
Today we travel out to Sapo National Park to begin our pygmy hippo monitoring programme. All the camera traps arrived last week thanks to…
Life on the EDGE in the Gobi desert (part 2)
We were exhausted from having been up all night, but the intense heat made it impossible to sleep. We rolled up the base of…
A year on the EDGE
Today is EDGE’s first birthday and we are celebrating with chocolate cake! Our first year on the EDGE has had plenty of ups and…
Six rare Indus River dolphins spotted in India!
Conservationists are delighted over the recent sighting of six rare Indus River dolphins (Platanista minor) in northwestern India, an area that traditionally is not…
Another new EDGE baby!
The world received fantastic news last week of the recent rare birth of one of our number 16 EDGE species, the aye-aye. The birth…
Gorilla update
An eight-day conference hoping to bring peace to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) troubled Kivu region has opened in the North Kivu…
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…
Great news for humpback whales!
Following widespread condemnation from environmentalists and governments, Japan’s whaling fleet has decided to call off their controversial plan to kill 50 humpback whales. This…
Wild Camel rescue
On Christmas Eve, the EDGE team received news from Yuan Lei, our Chinese Bactrian Camel EDGE Fellow about his amazing attempt to rescue an…