Great Gobi protected area and buffer zone survey (Part 2)
Here is Part 2 of our Mongolian EDGE Fellow-Adiya’s survey of the Great Gobi protected area and buffer zone. (Click here if you haven’t already read…
Great Gobi protected area & buffer zone survey
Adiya Yadamsuren, our Mongolian Bactrian camel EDGE Fellow has just completed his surveys in the Buffer Zone of the Great Gobi Protected Area A in…
Year of the Rat
Chinese New Year was celebrated last week, with February 7th marking the first day of the Year of the Rat. The Rat is traditionally…
Mystery of camel death solved
Yuan Lei, our Chinese Bactrian camel EDGE Fellow, recently sent us the post mortem results following the death of the wild camel he and…
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…
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…
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…