News: The Ocean Crisis and Coral Reef Extinction
Warnings about the environmental problems in the oceans have been circulating for a number of years. A new report, however, has brought to light…
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…
Field Update: Hispaniolan solenodon project
Since I am leaving on holiday tomorrow and will not be back for a while I thought it best to give you a quick…
News: A New EDGE Mammal?
The latest update of the IUCN Red list of threatened species is hot off the press. One of this year’s additions to the list…
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…
Volunteer researchers rediscover mammal
The place was El Dorado Nature Reserve in the far north of Colombia, South America. The date May 4th, 2011 and the time 9:30 pm. The lucky ones were Lizzie Noble and Simon McKeown who after just one month of volunteering monitoring endangered amphibians, enjoyed the first sighting of the magnificent red-crested tree rat (Santamartamys rufodorsalis) in 113 years.
24% of Seagrasses Threatened with Extinction
An international team of experts have carried out the first global survey of seagrass species. The results, published in the Biological Conservation Journal, indentify 15 of the 72 known species of seagrasses as threatened (Endangered, Vulnerable or Near Threatened), under criteria laid down by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.
Expanding horizons
The latest update on the Last Survivors project from Joe Nunez. We are just recently back from our first expedition into Haiti where we…
Project Ocean
Last week a big new campaign called Project Ocean was launched at Selfridges in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London. Project Ocean is…
EDGE Welcomes Zhou Feng!
Zhou Feng is an EDGE Fellow working on the Critically Endangered Chinese giant salamander – EDGE’s highest priority amphibian for conservation action. She recently…