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Im helping the great crested newt

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alex

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in a previous thread, before i know that it was illegal to own such an animal, i asked whether they make good pets. obviously the reply i got was NO.
after finding out just how threatened they are, i wanted to do more.
so now im involved in the aylesbury green spaces team helping to compile a list of pools harbouring great crested newts or ones that have the potential to be breeding sites. Each year, between February and June, small teams of volunteers go out at dusk to look for newts around ponds.
all i want to know is whether anything similar is being done elsewhere, and does anyone want to join me?
 
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cameron

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There are nature centers in the U.S. that travel to nearby ponds and record how many newts or salamander eggs (especially mole sals) there are in each pond in the area during spring. Sometimes a few larvae are taken to raise but they record an estimated population to an area. Then they determine how many there are in there entire range to guess about how many of them there are out in the wild. That would make the total population.
 
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roy

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In The Netherlands Great Crested newt is also a protected species and being monitored. People are trying to maintain and improve pools for this species.
This is coordinated by RAVON (http://www.ravon.nl/ only in Dutch)
 
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