Getting to know a caecilian and its problems
EDGE Fellow Dorine Shali has been familiarising herself with her study species, and the problems it faces on Sagalla Hill, Kenya. A field visit…
Mongolia saiga calf captured and collared
EDGE supports Mongolian conservationist Buuvei through the EDGE Fellows programme to research threats to saiga. Here is an account of his most recent fieldwork:…
Impressions from EDGE Fellows' Training Course
It is not long until the second group of EDGE Fellows arrives in the UK for the annual conservation skills training course, so here…
Which habitats do wild camels prefer?
Yuan Lei is an EDGE Fellow working on one of the few remaining wild Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) populations in China. In May he…
President visits EDGE Fellow John Konie
EDGE Fellow John Konie recently wrote to give us the news that the President of Liberia had made a visit to Sapo National Park,…
British NGO work for yellow-tailed woolly monkey
The yellow-tailed woolly monkey (EDGE Mammal number 79) is one of the largest and rarest New World monkeys. It is only found in the…
EDGE welcomes newest Fellow Dorine Ngeti!
My Name is Dorine Mkaluma Ngeti. I pursued Bachelor of Science Environmental Science in Egerton University, Kenya. I have worked with the East African…
Christmas Island bat: extinction within six months
The Christmas Island pipistrelle has less than 6 months to live unless taken into captivity immediately to set up an emergency captive breeding programme…
Public awareness education in China
EDGE Fellow Yuan Lei has sent this update on public awareness educational campaigns which were run by staff from the Lop Nur Wild Camel…
Saving Sagalla’s legless celebrity!
The EDGE Amphibians project has recently secured funding to start a conservation project for one of our highest priority species – the Sagalla caecilian…
Saiga Poachers arrested in Mongolia
EDGE Fellow Buuvei is investigating how much predation from dogs threatens Mongolian saiga antelopes. Here he tells us about efforts to combat one of…
Rainforest clearance threatens Sumatran wildlife
The EDGE team has just heard about a major proposal that threatens a reintroduced population of the Critically Endangered Sumatran orangutan (EDGE mammal no….