Durrell Wildlife Conservation

Apr 22

Field Stories: An interview with Durrell's 'rere' recovery project officer, Juliette Velosoa

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Juliette Velosoa is part of the team who initiated the program to head-start hatchling side-necked turtles (known as 'rere' to the Malagasy). Find out first hand how she feels about the work she is doing, and the achievements of the programme so far...

Apr 12

Continued trafficking of endemic tortoises risks undoing decades of efforts to conserve Madagascar

Durrell Madagascar

Based on the major seizures of tortoises and other species being smuggled out of Madagascar, seven leading environment non-governmental organisations ...

Feb 13

Field stories: tracking ploughshares in Madagascar

Kitty Brayne

Henri Rakotosalama works for Durrell in Madagascar monitoring a reintroduced population of the rarest tortoise in the world, the ploughshare or angono...

Nov 22

The translocation of the Round Island keel-scaled boa

Martine Goder

The Round Island keel-scaled boa, Casarea dussumieri, is the only surviving species in the snake family Bolyeriidae. Once present on mainland Mauritiu...

Jul 17

Dry season surveys of Livingstone’s fruit bat underway

Bronwen Daniel

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...

The ones (21) that got away.

Rob Williams

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...

Jul 2
Its been too long

Jose Nuñez-Miño

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...

Jul 2
Start the year as you mean to go on

Jose Nuñez-Miño

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...

Feb 3
The Last Kouwes?

Rob Williams

After a couple of arduous weeks blazing trails along the steep, dense, cactus covered, slopes of the 12 ha offshore island, Maria Major, off the South...

Dec 23

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