Programme Manager @EDGEofExistence @ZSLConservation | Trustee @ Kolaborasi Inklusi Konservasi (Konklusi) 🇲🇨 | Visiting researcher @ucl_herg @UCLanthropology
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
22 Oct 2024
EDGE heads to #COP16Colombia!
Representing us with pride we have our Latin America Project Manager, Dr Davi Teles and EDGE Alumna and Fellows, Dr Liliana Saboya, Andrea Natalia Martínez Bulla and Monica Franco Gutierrez.
#EDGEofExistence #EDGEspecies #EDGEFellows #COP16Colombia
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Join us at COP16 Colombia!
We will be hosting an exciting side event at COP16 in Cali, and we want you to be part of it!
📅 Friday, October 25
🕘 10:10 COT
📍 Blue Zone - Sanquianga GRULAC Meeting Room, Plaza One
👤 Hosted by Matthew Gould, ZSL CEO
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
14 Jun 2024
We are excited to introduce the 2024 cohort of EDGE Fellows!
Join us over the next 11 weeks to see who they are and which EDGE species they are working hard to protect.
Kindly supported by the Fondation Segré, @ontheedge_org & Fondation Franklinia.
#EDGEFellowship2024
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
16 Apr 2024
We're delighted to announce that applications are now open for the EDGE Fellowship 2025!
If you're an early-career conservationist from Asia or the Pacific, we want to hear from you.
To find out more and apply now, visit buff.ly/3VYGmYI
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
13 Mar 2024
A huge congratulations to Alain Rakotondrina and team on the publication of research from his EDGE Fellowship!
This important research will inform the long-term conservation of the Critically Endangered Tarzan Chameleon!
Head to buff.ly/3VbB6kj to read the full paper.
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
20 Mar 2024
Have you figured out our secret…or are you as curious as these incredible EDGE species!
Stay tuned next week for more clues
Turquoise dwarf gecko 📷 © Daniel Kane ZSL
Crocodile lizard 📷 © Benjamin Tapley ZSL
Mountain Chicken Frog 📷 ©Jamie Price
#WeHaveASecret
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
29 Feb 2024
102 billion years of life is at risk...but scientists have revealed a roadmap to save it 🌎
New ground-breaking study highlights not just how much evolutionary history could be lost – but also how to protect it
Read more 👉 zsl.org/news-and-events/news…
@rikkigumbs @EDGEofExistence
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
29 Feb 2024
Breaking! New research out today in @NatureComms, led by our very own @rikkigumbs, estimates that 102 billion years of vertebrate evolutionary history is at risk of being lost to extinction (a thread)
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
ALT Deep branches of the vertebrate Tree of Life are at risk. Credit: Gumbs et al. 2024, Nature Communications
ALT Big-headed Turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) in Vietnam. Credit: Ha Hoang
ALT The Galaxy Frog (Melanobatrachus indicus). Credit: Rajkumar KP
ALT Great Hammerhead (Sphyrna Mokarran). Credit: Shutterstock.
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
23 Feb 2024
@EDGEofExistence Fellow @chelonia_crania led a team working with local people in India to better understand one of the rarest turtle species – the Critically Endangered Cantor’s Giant Softshell Turtle
22 Feb 2024
The Cantor’s Giant Softshell Turtle is one of the world's largest and rarest #turtles. In her EDGE project, Ayushi Jain & her team worked with local communities to fill knowledge gaps for the #conservation of this elusive species
Read the new publication: doi.org/10.1017/S00306053230…
ALT 📷 © Chayant Gonsalves
ALT 📷 © Ayushi Jain
ALT 📷 © Ayushi Jain
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
19 Feb 2024
Searching for vipers in Kenya 🔎🐍
How a @zsllondonzoo Zookeeper and @EDGEofExistence Fellow teamed up to protect a snake species found nowhere else on Earth 👇 zsl.org/news-and-events/feat…
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
22 Feb 2024
The Cantor’s Giant Softshell Turtle is one of the world's largest and rarest #turtles. In her EDGE project, Ayushi Jain & her team worked with local communities to fill knowledge gaps for the #conservation of this elusive species
Read the new publication: doi.org/10.1017/S00306053230…
ALT 📷 © Chayant Gonsalves
ALT 📷 © Ayushi Jain
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
12 Oct 2023
Almost 2yrs with ZSL EDGE Fellowship! Every day there's a new thing to learn. It was nice to attend the training & interact with many passionate conservationists & experts. Being the first cohort of "Tree" fellows was a treat - wish many more plant people to join the fellowship.
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
27 Sep 2023
Next up in our Fellows in the field series, we have alumnus John Lyakurwa.
Rikki visited John in Tanzania and had the opportunity to meet his team. He saw the incredible work they are doing to continue efforts in protecting his EDGE species, the Turquoise Dwarf Gecko.
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
21 Sep 2023
La protección de reptiles y anfibios en España, la Sociedad Zoológica de Londres y el periodista de ‘La Verdad’ de Murcia Miguel Ángel Ruiz Parra, galardonados por la Fundación BBVA en los XVIII Premios a la Conservación de la Biodiversidad. ¡Enhorabuena!
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ALT XVIII Premios a la Conservación de la Biodiversidad De izquierda a derecha: Tritón jaspeado (Íñigo Martínez Solano), tortuga del río Mary (Chris Van Wyk) y Miguel Ángel Ruiz Parra en el Mar Menor (Martínez Bueso)
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
26 Sep 2023
🎉 Breaking News 🎉
We are excited to announce we have been honoured with the Worldwide Award for Biodiversity Conservation in the 18th @FundacionBBVA Awards for #Biodiversity #Conservation.
Huge congratulations to the entire EDGE family!
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
31 Jul 2023
🦜 A roadmap for conserving some of the world’s most unique birds
ZSL’s @rikkigumbs and @peregrinefund have reevaluated how to protect the more unusual bird species currently under threat of extinction
Read more here 👇
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Nominated for the BIAZA Rising Star Award is Daniel Kane!✨
Dan (@zsllondonzoo) makes a significant contribution to the BIAZA community through his work & research - shared to working groups, conferences & @EDGEofExistence conservationists
Thank you for this fantastic work!🍾
ALT Dan with a handheld green viper of some sort, equipped with a headtorch and illuminated by camera flash in this night-time setting.
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
10 Jul 2023
Do you work on an EDGE species in Latin America?
Then we want to hear from you!
Applications close on July 16th, so you have just one week left to apply! #EDGEFellowship2024
For full details, eligibility requirements and how to apply visit our website edgeofexistence.org/become-a…
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Dr Paul Barnes retweeted
7 Jun 2023
Are you passionate about biodiversity conservation? 🌿 @EDGEofExistence is looking for exceptional individuals to join their fellowship program. Get the training, support, and funding you need to make an impact. Apply today: edgeofexistence.org/become-a… #FellowshipOpportunity
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