Life on the EDGE in the Gobi desert (part 2)
We were exhausted from having been up all night, but the intense heat made it impossible to sleep. We rolled up the base of…
A year on the EDGE
Today is EDGE’s first birthday and we are celebrating with chocolate cake! Our first year on the EDGE has had plenty of ups and…
Six rare Indus River dolphins spotted in India!
Conservationists are delighted over the recent sighting of six rare Indus River dolphins (Platanista minor) in northwestern India, an area that traditionally is not…
Another new EDGE baby!
The world received fantastic news last week of the recent rare birth of one of our number 16 EDGE species, the aye-aye. The birth…
Gorilla update
An eight-day conference hoping to bring peace to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) troubled Kivu region has opened in the North Kivu…
Amazing new species in Papua’s “Lost World”
During a follow up visit to the Foja Mountains of Papua, scientists from Conservation International and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences have recently announced…
Great news for humpback whales!
Following widespread condemnation from environmentalists and governments, Japan’s whaling fleet has decided to call off their controversial plan to kill 50 humpback whales. This…
Wild Camel rescue
On Christmas Eve, the EDGE team received news from Yuan Lei, our Chinese Bactrian Camel EDGE Fellow about his amazing attempt to rescue an…
First known footage of wild long-eared jerboas
[flashvideo filename=videos/hopping_final.flv width=432 height=240 image=videos/hopping1.jpg /] Scroll down to find out more about the expedition to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert and view the first known footage…
The agenda is simple: this turtle must not die
It feels like history is repeating itself again in the Yangtze River. Earlier this year, scientists declared that the Yangtze River dolphin or baiji…
Only 150 Vaquita left!
The EDGE team received some shocking news this month that our number 78 EDGE species, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is slipping even closer towards…
New EDGE baby
The EDGE programme received wonderful news from the ZSL-Whipsnade Zoo about the arrival of a new Asian one-horned rhino. This hefty little boy is…