The common toad is in decline across much of the UK and needs better protection, say conservationists. Data from toad patrols - volunteers who move toads across busy roads - shows the toad population ...

Recent years have seen a collapse in the regional populations of both frogs and toads. Issues such as loss of wetland habitats and particularly of breeding ponds took their toll in the twentieth ...

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'Poop, poop!’ Imagine the scene, as the eccentric, narcissistic Mr Toad comes careering around the corner dressed in gaudy Harris tweed, behind the wheel of his bright-red sports car. The toad ...

In the spring of 2005, common toads in Germany and Denmark began dying in a violent and highly unusual way. Witnesses ...

It has been a year of milestones for a group of toad patrollers as they have now helped 50,000 amphibians reach their breeding grounds in the last three decades. The Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group ...

Teams of volunteers in Ringwood are setting out to help save the local population of Common Toads. February to April is the time of year when Common Toads leave their winter sleeping quarters in the ...

A speeding motor car, said Toad of Toad Hall, is a "glorious, stirring sight ... Poop, poop!" Driving at full pelt along country lanes, casting dust clouds behind him, was the "only way to travel", he ...

The first nationwide survey of UK amphibian and reptiles has found that several of Britain's most widespread species are in decline. The warning comes from the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust ...

As the weather this early January is so vile, I thought by way of consolation I would relay some views on the pleasure of the springtime to come, from an unfamiliar source: George Orwell. We don’t ...

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When Karen Bennett bought the food for her family’s Sunday roast she didn’t bank on taking an extra dinner guest home among her supermarket shopping. But days later when the mother-of-two pulled from ...