Superhero Sunday: The Top 10 Superpowers of EDGE Species Part 2/2
Welcome back to Superhero Sunday here at EDGE! Last week we met a salamander who can go ten years without eating, a bird…
Superhero Sunday: The Top 10 Superpowers of EDGE Species Part 1/2
Who loves superheroes? We all love superheroes! From Spiderman to the Avengers to Batman to the Fantastic Four to Ant-Man, superheroes are flooding popular…
Sagalla Caecilian Conservation Makes Significant Progress in Kenya
In Kenya, the Sagalla Caecilian Conservation Project is carrying out habitat rehabilitation through planting of indigenous trees and vetiva grass in Sagalla Hill forest,…
New Family of Caecilians Discovered
North-east India is a poorly understood region only considered to be a ‘gateway’ between the Himalayan and Indo-Burmese biodiversity hotspots, but now researchers are…
Leaping Ahead of Extinction
To coincide with Leap Day, Amphibian Ark has launched a new international event that is celebrating the successes achieved in amphibian conservation, both in…
A great month for the livelihoods project in Sagalla
The alternative livelihoods project to secure a future for he Sagalla caecilian never stops… Tree planting The weather has favoured tree planting this month,…
Tree planting season launched
James Mwang’ombe is the project manager for the Sagalla Caecilian (Boulengerula niedeni) conservation project in Kenya. One of the projects activities is the planting…
Forest Rehabilitation and Tree Planting
An update from James Mwang’ombe, the supervisor of EDGE Fellow Dorine Shali, both of whom are contributing to the conservation of the Sagalla caecilian…
Sagalla Forest Inventory
Forest Inventory and data collection in Sagalla Forest was done in the month of November 2009. Method The field plots were of size 50…
Benefits for communities and caecilians
I, James Mwang’ombe, am Dorine’s local supervisor and the Head of the Taita Taveta Wildlife Forum. The Sagalla Caecilian conservation project is one of…
Steps to reforestation in Sagalla, Kenya
The following blog update was sent by James Mwang’ombe of the Taita Taveta Wildlife Forum in Kenya, where EDGE Fellow Dorine is working to…
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…
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…
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…