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…
Species of the Week: Elegance coral
Elegant by name and nature, this spectacular coral can catch small prey with its tentacles. Elegance coral (Catalaphyllia jardinae) is characterized by green tentacles…
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…
Species of the Week: Taylor’s Salamander
Taylor’s salamander (Ambystoma taylori)like many other amphibians defies limits. This salamander has specialised for life in salty water. It can only be found in…
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: Archey’s Frog
This frog is often described as a “living fossil” since it is almost indistinguishable from the fossilised remains of frogs that lived 150 million…
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: The Purple Frog
This frog in not only extraordinary in its appearance but also in the way it lives. Unlike most frogs the purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis)…
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…
Urgent Action Needed: Planting Trees for Loris
Note: Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign and helped us reach our target! if you would like to keep supporting EDGE project…
Baby Pygmy Hippo Makes a Splash
Today Sapo, the cute pygmy hippo calf at Whipsnade Zoo, took his first dip in the outdoor pool! The calf has been named after the national park in Liberia where EDGE fellow, John Konie, managed to secure the first camera trap pictures of the species in that country.
Can Diatoms Help Save Hewitt’s Ghost Frog?
We have recently brought in a new monitoring tool to help devise conservation management actions for Hewitt’s Ghost Frog: a full spectrum diatom analysis…