Conserving pygmy hippos in Sapo NP, Liberia
The good news is that efforts are well underway at Sapo National Park to help conserve the pygmy hippopotamus and ensures protection of its…
Sapo National Park
Sapo National Park (SNP), located in the south-central portion of Liberia, encompasses 180,363 ha of lowland rainforest, including swampy areas, dryland and riparian forests,…
Zakhyn Us – Mongolia
Founded by the Wild Camel Protection Foundation The only captive wild Bactrian camel breeding centre in the world. In 2003, the Wild Camel Protection…
Seychelles sheath-tailed bat 2
The next installment of Dr Justin Gerlach’s important work to save one of the world’s most threatened bat species. Conservation in the Seychelles islands…
Little Gobi Strictly Protected Area
Next month, Uuganbadrakh will travel to the Gobi Strictly Protected Area to design and test the methods he will use to monitor the Endangered…
Sumatran rabbit captured on camera
Top 10 EDGE species, the Sumatran rabbit, has been spotted for only the third time in the last 35 years.The distinctive striped rabbit was…
The Wild Bactrian Camel
There are approximately 450 wild Bactrian camels in the Mongolian Great Gobi Reserve A south of Bayan Toroi and approximately 650 additional camels further…
Pygmy hippo blog
Hi, my name is Ben, and I’m part of the team responsible for developing EDGE, and will be coordinating the pygmy hippo project for…
Last chance for Haiti’s solenodons
The Tiburon Peninsula (named after the Spanish word for shark) stretches out from southern Haiti westward towards Cuba. The word ‘Haiti’ means ‘mountain’ in…
Conservation update
The EDGE team is getting ready to put theory into practice, with our forthcoming research and conservation expeditions. Thanks to your generous donations we…
EDGE methods paper published!
At last week’s ZSL Scientific Meeting, “Saving Species on the EDGE: From Theory to Practice”, Nick Isaac and Arne Mooers discussed for the first…
Seychelles sheath-tailed bat
Dr Justin Gerlach is working with the Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles to conserve the Seychelles sheath-tailed bat (Coleura seychellensis), ranked 25th on the EDGE…
Carly’s blog
I have been working as the EDGE Programme Co-ordinator at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) since July 2005. Prior to this I worked…
ZSL Scientific Meeting
Many of the world’s most evolutionarily distinct species are on the edge of extinction, yet they receive little or no conservation attention. For example,…