Creepy Creatures
The weather is biting and the nights are drawing in, but if that’s not enough to make you shiver then maybe you will be…
A New Book Highlights that “Life is Good” for Conservation
The Sumatran rhino (EDGE species #9), the Hispaniolan solenodon (#7), and the pygmy hippo (#28) all star in a new book of essays by…
Camera captures rare glimpse of pygmy hippo
Camera traps are revolutionising our ability to track the changing fate of wildlife. Often used in remote locations looking for elusive species, this automated digital…
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…
Finding pygmy hippos in Sierra Leone
The pygmy hippo is a priority EDGE mammal endemic to the threatened Upper Guinea Forests biodiversity hotspot with fewer than 3,000 believed to remain…
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.
Pygmy hippo workshop is a success
In November 2010 a workshop was held in Liberia, West Africa to develop a conservation strategy for the pygmy hippo, EDGE mammal number 29….
Pygmy hippo is IUCN's Species of the Day
The pygmy hippopotamus is today featured as the IUCN Red List ‘Species of the Day’, which is running throughout 2010 to mark the International…
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,…
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…
Caught on camera
Sapo National park comprises 1800 km2 of moist tropical lowland rainforest, with a varied mosaic of riparian, seasonally inundated, and dryland forest. There is…
Camera trap results
Team 1 – forest team While the cameras must stay in the field for 35 days to allow sufficient time for images to be…
London to Monrovia
On the 20th January, Ben Collen, Janna Rist and Olivia Daniel set off to Liberia to set up a monitoring programme in Sapo National…
Photocall for cryptic pygmy hippos
Today we travel out to Sapo National Park to begin our pygmy hippo monitoring programme. All the camera traps arrived last week thanks to…