A zookeeper in Mongolia
I am Oliver Duprey and I work at ZSL London Zoo as a keeper looking after a number of different species including the sloth…
Search for Attenborough’s echidna (Part 1)
In May of 2007 the EDGE team sent out a preliminary research expedition to search for Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (a remarkable small spiny egg-laying…
Carly’s blog
This week I met some of the keepers at ZSL London Zoo who are responsible for caring for two very special EDGE species –…
Lop Nur Nature Reserve, China
Lop Nur is is a group of small, seasonal salt lakes and marshes between the Taklamakan and Kuruktag deserts in the southeastern portion of…
Co-ordinator’s blog
After months of preparation Uuganbadrakh is now ready to travel to the remote Gobi desert to begin his fieldwork on the long-eared jerboa. We…
ZSL Scientific Meeting – Global Amphibian Declines
Dates: 12 Jun 2007 Times: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Amphibians are in crisis. Populations are declining at alarmingly rapid rates worldwide and species…
Loris trade – International CITES meeting
The slow loris, an impossibly cute nocturnal primate found in the rainforests of South East Asia, is thought to be at risk from the…
The Qiantang River dolphin?
The Qiantang River is a large river in eastern China that travels through Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces. Although several hundred miles south of the…
Sapo National Park
Robert Howard, part of the Fauna and Flora International (FFI) team involved in bio-monitoring of the species that occur in Sapo National Park, Liberia…
Last ditch attempt to save Nepalese rhino
An ambitious new plan to save the one-horned Asian rhino in Nepal is today being announced by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), National…
Co-ordinators blog
It’s been a fairly quite week here in the EDGE office, as many of the team are still away on fieldwork. Sam and Helen…
A new EDGE Fellow!
The EDGE team is delighted to announce that we have now raised sufficient funds for a second EDGE Fellow, Adya Yadamsuren. Adya would like…