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With your support we could: Restore the habitat of the majestic Philippine eagle Each pair needs 25-50 square miles of forest to successfully feed…
EDGE Trainees take a snake break from heavy stats
It’s been a mentally tough week here in Chitwan. The course participants have had four intense days learning statistics, the basics of R (a…
Elephants, Tigers and Leopards
It’s rained all day today. It shouldn’t do– the monsoon season finished at the end of September so today’s weather was somewhat unexpected.As it happens, today…
Species of the Week: The Volcano Rabbit
Scientists believe the volcano rabbit (Romerolagus diazi) is the most primitive of all living rabbits or hares. The volcano rabbit is so different from…
New Sanctuaries for Asian River Dolphins
Earlier this week Bangladesh announced that three areas in the southern Sundarbans mangrove forest will be declared sanctuaries to protect Ganges river dolphins (Platanista…
Conservation Tools Course Launched in Nepal
It’s a very exciting time for EDGE – As part of our re-designed EDGE Fellowship programme, we’re currently running a Conservation Tools training course in…
Species of the Week: Bornean Flat-Headed Frog
This flat looking frog has one extremely unique quality: it is the only known frog in the world to have no lungs! The Bornean…
First Sighting of Bullock’s False Toad Since 2005
Trying to save one EDGE species was apparently not enough for former EDGE Fellow Claudio Soto-Azat. He has been working for a few years…
Species of the week: Gunning’s golden mole
Gunning’s golden mole (Neamblysomus gunning) is the highest ranking EDGE species of the enigmatic golden moles, an ancient group of subterranean mammals. The golden…
Species of the week: Angel’s Madagascar frog
As the name suggests Angel’s Madagascar frog (Boehmantis microtympanum) lives exclusively in Madagascar, specifically in southeastern Madagascar. This is a brook-dwelling frog species, often found…
How to catch a pygmy hippo on camera
Trying to get cameras in the wild to capture images of the elusive pygmy hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis) is no easy task, but the project…
Species of the week: the Maned three-toed sloth
The maned three-toed sloth (Bradypus torquatus) is an incredible mammal which spends most of its life in the branches of trees, either hanging upside…