Two years on: continued conservation action
So much has happened since our last posting that I have no idea if I’ll be able to cram it all into a reasonable…
Finding pygmy hippos in Sierra Leone
The pygmy hippo is a priority EDGE mammal endemic to the threatened Upper Guinea Forests biodiversity hotspot with fewer than 3,000 believed to remain…
Species of the Week: Santa Catarina’s guinea pig
This is one of the rarest species on the planet because of its very small population size (between 24 to 60 individuals). Santa Catarina’s…
Species of the week: EDGE Rhinos
September 22nd is World Rhino Day, in honour of that we are dedicating our species of the week to not one, but three Rhino…
Species of the Week: Horton Plains Slender Loris
The Horton Plains slender loris, also known as montane loris (Loris tardigradus nyctoceboides) is bizarre and adorable all at once. It did a disappearing…
Species of the week: Mountain Pygmy Possum
Cute but tough, the mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus) is a highly unusual marsupial and the largest of Australia’s five pygmy possums. Unlike most…
Back and ready to go
After visiting friends and family back in the United Kingdom I am now back in the sunny Caribbean. Actually it’s not been that sunny…
A more robust EDGE
Last week a new paper was published by researchers at ZSL which included a new EDGE mammals list. The list is the result of…
Species of the Week: Asian tapir (Tapirus indicus)
A unique distinctive feature of tapirs is their short gripping trunk, which truly is an extended prehensile nose and upper lip. It allows a…
Species of the Week: Dugong (Dugong dugon)
This ever smiling creature may have once inspired mermaid myths. Dugongs are surprisingly more closely related to elephants than to other marine mammals such…
Species of the Week: a squirrel? a rat? No, its Kha-Nyou (Laonastes aenigmamus)
This weeks star comes to you courtesy of our twitter followers. Kha-Nyou resembles a cross between a squirrel and a large rat, with its…
Species of the Week: Hispaniolan Solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus)
The Hispaniolan Solenodon is not only one of the most evolutionarily distinct and threatened mammals in the world; but also, one of the few…
Extraordinary and Threatened Bats
When I was still a teenager, I had my first opportunity to work with bats while volunteering to help a PhD student in his…
News: The Last Stand of the Sumatran Rhino
The Sumatran rhino, EDGE mammal number 10 is the most endangered of all rhinoceros species because of its rapid rate of decline. This extraordinary…