Dry season surveys of Livingstone’s fruit bat underway
Now that our legs are sufficiently rested after the wet season surveys of the Livingstone’s fruit bat population which finished in January, the ECDD p...
Tsanta Fiderana, Durrell’s vet in Madagascar, has just got back from a trip to Thailand to help with the care of trafficked ploughshare tortoises. Here she tells us about her trip, and about how she came to specialise in caring for the most threatened tortoise in the world.
Juliette Velosoa is part of the team who initiated the programme to head-start hatchling side-necked turtles (known as 'rere' to the Malagasy). Find o...
In response to the major seizures of tortoises and other species being smuggled out of Madagascar, seven leading environment non-governmental organisa...
Henri Rakotosalama works for Durrell in Madagascar monitoring a reintroduced population of the rarest tortoise in the world, the ploughshare or angono...
The Round Island keel-scaled boa, Casarea dussumieri, is the only surviving species in the snake family Bolyeriidae. Once present on mainland Mauritiu...
Now that our legs are sufficiently rested after the wet season surveys of the Livingstone’s fruit bat population which finished in January, the ECDD p...
I’m glad to say that the first stage of the Saint Lucia Racer snake project has gone much better than expected. 30 sightings of snakes were made! Nine...
We owe all of you a huge apology since it has been over two months since our last blog update. To be quite honest the whole team have been so rushed o...
I am convinced that time is speeding up; the last few weeks have absolutely flown by. Our main focus since our last blog has been field work. The whol...