{"id":589,"date":"2022-02-13T21:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T21:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verdantecology.co.uk\/?page_id=589"},"modified":"2023-02-24T23:54:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T23:54:38","slug":"amphibians","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/verdantecology.co.uk\/index.php\/amphibians\/","title":{"rendered":"Amphibians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Amphibians<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Amphibians including great crested newts and natterjack toads<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Female great crested newt, Essex<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We provide training courses.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We do ecotourism trips.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We conduct scientific research.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For planning and development…..<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We do surveys, reports, impact licences and mitigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We assess the potential of a site to support great crested newts<\/strong> (other UK amphibians are protected by policy only except for natterjack toads and it is believed all populations of these are already known).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We conduct follow up surveys:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 Habitat Suitability Index ‘calculations’.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 Rapid Risk Assessments.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 eDNA testing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 Presence\/likely absence surveys (torchlight, bottle ‘traps’, netting and egg searches).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mitigation may include avoidance of impacts, district licensing, habitat creation, licensed translocation and habitat destruction.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Great crested newt training event, Surrey<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Bottle ‘trap’ surveys, Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Great crested newts, Surrey<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Habitat enhancement for great crested newts, Hertfordshire<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Pamate newts, Surrey<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ribbed newt (Pleurodeles waltl<\/em>), Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Yellow-bellied toad (Bombina variegata<\/em>), Albania<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Spadefoot toad (Pelobates cultripes<\/em>), Portugal<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amphibians including great crested newts and natterjack toads We provide training courses. We do ecotourism trips. We conduct scientific research. For planning and development….. We do surveys, reports, impact licences and mitigation. We assess the potential of a site to support great crested newts (other UK amphibians are protected by policy only except for natterjack… Read More »Amphibians<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"left","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-589","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verdantecology.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verdantecology.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verdantecology.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verdantecology.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verdantecology.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/verdantecology.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/verdantecology.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/589\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verdantecology.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}