Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Until a couple of years ago our small pond in our north London garden
> was regularly populated with common newts breeding in spring. For the
> last two years there have been no newts. Does this reflect the
> widespread loss of amphibians that has been reported? They are certainly
> missed.
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I knew that there were concerns about the crested newt in the UK but
hadn't realised until you posted that this now applies to the common
newt as well. Did a bit of googling and discovered that, like the
crested, they are now a protected species:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfact...iles/479.shtml
I wonder if their further decline relates to the hot summers, cold
winters and lack of rainfall we have had over the last couple of years -
hopefully our recent mild winter and very wet weather this year will
mean that they will start to recover in numbers this year.
Gill
Gill Passman
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