President visits EDGE Fellow John Konie
EDGE Fellow John Konie recently wrote to give us the news that the President of Liberia had made a visit to Sapo National Park,…
British NGO work for yellow-tailed woolly monkey
The yellow-tailed woolly monkey (EDGE Mammal number 79) is one of the largest and rarest New World monkeys. It is only found in the…
Christmas Island bat: extinction within six months
The Christmas Island pipistrelle has less than 6 months to live unless taken into captivity immediately to set up an emergency captive breeding programme…
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…
Saiga Poachers arrested in Mongolia
EDGE Fellow Buuvei is investigating how much predation from dogs threatens Mongolian saiga antelopes. Here he tells us about efforts to combat one of…
Rainforest clearance threatens Sumatran wildlife
The EDGE team has just heard about a major proposal that threatens a reintroduced population of the Critically Endangered Sumatran orangutan (EDGE mammal no….
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…
Tracking long-eared jerboas in the Gobi
EDGE Fellow Uuganbadrakh, who is researching the long-eared jerboa in Mongolia’s Gobi desert, tells us here about using radio telemetry to track these little…
Witness to Extinction
Everyone loves dolphins, don’t they? And the baiji—the Yangtze River Dolphin—was so beautiful. Along the river, legends abound of its origin from the metamorphosis…
Large hirola group spotted with calves
Here is the latest blog from Kimitei, our EDGE Fellow working on the critically endangered hirola antelope in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. It…
Job opportunity in Dominican Repulbic
Field Project Manager – Hispaniolan Endemic Land Mammals Project The project The UK Darwin Initiative funded Hispaniolan Endemic Land Mammals Project seeks to enable…
Orangutan population found in remote Borneo
Conservationists have found a previously-unknown population of orangutans in Indonesian Borneo, which may number up to 2,000. A Nature Conservancy survey of remote and…
Requiem for the baiji
Here is the final blog from EDGE’s Dr Sam Turvey about his surveys along the Yangtze River in China, trying to discover the cause…
EDGE Fellow Buuvei wins award!
EDGE Fellow Bayarbaatar Buuveibaatar, a young scientist engaged in saiga research and conservation activities in his home country of Mongolia, has been awarded $15,000…