Dog walkers are being asked to keep their pets out of ponds in Nightingale Woods to allow protected newts to breed safely.

Forestry England says dogs are welcome in the woods, near Swindon, but should be stopped from entering the ponds so the newts ...

Multiple trees lay toppled, stunned with roots unearthed, their life blood gone. Some blocked well-trodden paths as if to ...

For over 70 years, the UK has sought to protect its rarest wildlife, ensuring that development and conservation can coexist.

For years, nature has been blamed as a blocker of economic growth. After some ministerial bluster about not letting newts and ...

Islanders have been asked to become citizen scientists in a bid to help Jersey's newts, frogs and toads. Jersey Biodiversity Centre (JBC) wants people to record wildlife they see in their ponds ...

In the winter rainy season, thousands of orange-brown California newts cross Bay Area roads, migrating from burrows to mating ponds. Like banana slugs, newts need moisture to survive — especially ...

On top of these threats, unusually prolonged droughts caused by climate change dry out the newt’s breeding ponds. The species is declining even on public lands that are protected from development.

while the ponds have become havens for wildlife, hosting 50 species of water beetles - 15 of conservation concern - as well as common frogs, toads, great crested newts and grass snakes.