The pygmy hippopotamus is today featured as the IUCN Red List ‘Species of the Day’, which is running throughout 2010 to mark the International Year of Biodiversity.
Ranked 21st on the EDGE Mammal conservation priority list, the pygmy hippo is also one of our focal species for conservation action. The lesser-known of the two extant hippopotamus [...]
All these articles are “online first” for what I am assuming is a forthcoming Darwin iss
Scientists at Exeter University are studying an African mongoose group that will star in a BBC programme called Banded Brothers
This week the list of the World’s 25 most endangered primates was released, highlighting which of man’s closest relatives are on the brink extinction and are most in need of conservation attention.
The report, Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2008–2010, compiled by 85 experts from across the world, reveals that almost half [...]
Nearly half of all primates are in danger of becoming extinct. Here are some of the species under threat
Hirola monitoring is still on as usual despite challenges here and there. However, this will not make us not to achieve what we want at the long run. Struggle to free our world from exposing species to extinction is our role and priority as conservationist. 2010 has started will much light at the end of [...]
Richard Sole and Brian Goodwin compiled a book detailing the applications and seemingly inescapable 
Listed as Critically Endangered, the vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus) is the rarest and smallest cetacean species. It has the smallest range of any marine mammal and is on the EDGE conservation priority list (ZSL 2009). One of the only six extant porpoise species (Phocoenidae), the vaquita is entirely restricted to the extreme northern part of [...]
Some of the creatures photographed by David Liittschwager in one cubic foot in Moorea, French Polynesia