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Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species

homunculus — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:14:38 -0800

Saving the world's weirdest creatures. The EDGE of Existence programme, a project of the Zoological Society of London, aims to conserve the world's most Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species by implementing the research and conservation actions needed to secure their future. [Via MoFi.]

By: dead_

dead_ — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:14:07 -0800

Nice links, thanks!

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:30:08 -0800

Shouldn't the worlds' navies help preserve the Aye Aye?

By: melangell

melangell — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:54:58 -0800

They need to get off their butts and find a megalodon, so they can add megalodons to the list.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:31:40 -0800

aw, Attenborough's long-beaked echidna is a loveable looking critter. It's known from a single specimen collected by a Dutch botanist in 1961, and currently held in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. The species is believed to be restricted to a single mountain peak in the Cyclops Mountains in the Indonesian province of Papua (on the island of New Guinea). There have been few systematic attempts to survey the flora and fauna of the Cyclops Mountains and no mammal surveys in the region since the type specimen was collected. The main threats to the species are not known, although other long-beaked echidnas are threatened by hunting and human encroachment onto their habitat. Dang, a single mountain peak? That's pretty rare. aw The slender loris, those eyes! And the golden-rumped elephant shrew, what a marvelous name for that little rascal. Thanks for the (as usual) fascinating and informative post homunculus.

By: lalochezia

lalochezia — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:55:49 -0800

Amazing collection: eponysterical, miniscule , star-warsian , yikes! Great post. For more on indris and malagasay (madagascan) wildlife, see Lords and Lemurs.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:47:22 -0800

thanks!

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:11:27 -0800

lalochezia, What was your star-warsian link supposed to be? Your yikes link reminded me of the night I went to buy some chang in the Tibetan settlement, Majnu ka Tilla, in Delhi, a funky place by the Jamuna river. Under the street lamp I saw a small pig but then.. it jumped and I saw its long tail. It was a RAT (like this big). A huge jumping river rat. Now that was a yikes.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:30:59 -0800

As we drive the evolution of species, humans may be building a future with ever more diverse pests and pathogens and without the creatures we value most.