Sapo NP – Home of the pygmy hippo
Our EDGE Fellow John Konie monitors the pygmy hippopotamus and other threatened mammal species in Liberia. He has sent us the following information about…
Good news for Australian EDGE species!
Three top ranking Australian EDGE species have been given a fighting chance for survival following the Victorian government’s landmark decision to set aside 75,000…
New EDGE Fellow: Meet Buuvei!
I am happy to welcome our newest EDGE Fellow, Buuvei, who will be researching the saiga antelope in Mongolia. Buuvei sent the following information…
Register now to run for EDGE
This Friday is the deadline for entries for the British 10k London Run! ZSL are looking for runners to fill the last few charity…
Four Bactrian camel calves born
Earlier this year our Mongolian EDGE Fellow working on the Bactrian camel, Adiya, and John Hare from the Wild Camel Protection Foundation (WCPF) visited…
X-Frogs
Marvel Comics brought you X-Men in 1963; spandex-uniformed human genetic anomalies or “mutants” with super powers hinted at by their names, e.g. Iceman, Beast,…
The Awer, or Boni, people
Our Kenyan EDGE Fellow, Grace Ngaruiya, studies the Endangered golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus). She has carried out transect surveys in the Boni forest…
EDGE Amphibian 505 – the Fijian ground frog
The EDGE Programme seeks to prioritise the conservation of around 10% of the world’s amphibian species – otherwise known as the 799 EDGE Amphibians!…
Conservation of Caribbean amphibians
EDGE Amphibians coordinator Helen Meredith recently attended a workshop on the conservation of Caribbean amphibians, and wrote this report about her experiences: The Holy…
Boni National Reserve, Kenya
Grace Ngaruiya, our Kenyan EDGE Fellow who works on the golden-rumped elephant shrew, recently went to Boni National Reserve in Kenya to search for…
Bactrian camel update – Field expedition to Gobi B
Adiya is our Mongolian EDGE Fellow studying the wild Bactrian camel. From the 19th to 28th April this year he went on an expedition…
Top ED mammal genome sequenced
Scientists have recently sequenced the genome of the most Evolutionarily Distinct mammal species, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), in order to study the evolution of…