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…
First known footage of wild long-eared jerboas
[flashvideo filename=videos/hopping_final.flv width=432 height=240 image=videos/hopping1.jpg /] Scroll down to find out more about the expedition to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert and view the first known footage…
The agenda is simple: this turtle must not die
It feels like history is repeating itself again in the Yangtze River. Earlier this year, scientists declared that the Yangtze River dolphin or baiji…
Only 150 Vaquita left!
The EDGE team received some shocking news this month that our number 78 EDGE species, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is slipping even closer towards…
New EDGE baby
The EDGE programme received wonderful news from the ZSL-Whipsnade Zoo about the arrival of a new Asian one-horned rhino. This hefty little boy is…
Gorilla news
A devastating event happened earlier this year when armed gunmen entered Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo and killed five endangered…
Japanese whalers target endangered EDGE species
A Japanese whaling fleet embarked on a three month whaling expedition yesterday that aims to kill 1000 whales. The majority of the proposed haul…
Saving sloths
EDGE has recently received information from Dr Adriano Chiarello who is studying the Maned three-toed sloth (Bradypus torquatus) in Brazil. We felt that this essential research on…
New EDGE Fellows Coordinator
Hi. You may have noticed a new name posting the blogs so I thought it would be a good time to introduce myself…… I…
Uuganbadrakh: News from the field
Our Long-eared jerboa EDGE Fellow Uuganbadrakh has just sent us details of his hibernation study in Mongolia. This illegal mining is near the habitat…
New species of peccary found in Amazon
A new species of peccary has recently been found in the Rio Aripuanã river basin in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. This newly discovered…
Yuan Lei's interview with herdsmen
Annanba village was chosen as a good site to interview herdsman as this is the only village in the Akesai county that links to,…