London to Monrovia
On the 20th January, Ben Collen, Janna Rist and Olivia Daniel set off to Liberia to set up a monitoring programme in Sapo National…
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…
Life in Cold Blood
Life in Cold Blood, the sixth and final series of the ground-breaking Life nature documentaries written and presented by Sir David Attenborough, is currently…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…