Durrell Wildlife Conservation

Jun 7

How I came to go to Thailand to look after Madagascar’s stolen tortoises

Tsanta Fiderana Rakotonanahary

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.

Apr 22

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

Kitty Brayne

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...

Apr 12

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

Durrell Madagascar

In response to the major seizures of tortoises and other species being smuggled out of Madagascar, seven leading environment non-governmental organisa...

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...

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...

Jul 17
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

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