E.D.G.E.

A group in Britain has formed EDGE to try to rescue animal species which are on the edge of destruction.

EDGE= "Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered" species.

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Scientists try to save world's rarest creatures
Mon Jan 15, 2007

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists launched a bid on Tuesday to save some of the world's rarest and most neglected creatures from extinction.



With an initial list of just 10 -- including a venomous shrew-like creature, an egg-laying mammal and the world's smallest bat -- the programme will give last ditch conservation aid where to date there has been little or none.

"We are focusing on EDGE species -- that means they are Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered," said Zoological Society of London scientist Jonathan Baillie.

"These are one-of-a-kind species. If they are lost there is nothing similar to them left on the planet. It would be a bit like the art world losing the Mona Lisa -- they are simply irreplaceable," he told Reuters.

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These picture show the bumblebat (or bumblebee bat) and the slender loris.