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Jul 2024
Wildlife Trust seek Harrogate landowners to make homes for newts
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is offering landowners across Yorkshire the chance to help save endangered newts.
As part of a partnership project with Natural England, the Trust is working to create and restore ponds to provide habitats for great-crested newts.
The Trust said it is particularly interested in sites in Harrogate, Craven, Richmondshire, Leeds and Wakefield.
It adds preference will be given to sites where between two and six ponds can be created or restored.
The Wildlife Trust aim for the ponds to compensate for loss of habitat via development, strengthen existing newt populations and create new wild havens for other wetland wildlife.
Newt pond
The ponds are fully funded, and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust will carry out all the project management and works required including obtaining planning permission.
Prospective landowners just need to do periodic maintenance and allow occasional site visits.
The great crested newt ponds programme has been running for five years, and in that time the Trust has restored or created over 70 ponds.
John Thompson, Wetland Creation Officer, said:
Great crested newts are one of our most protected amphibians and have suffered severe declines over the last century due to various reasons including habitat loss, pollution and fragmentation of habitats.
As a result, our pond-building project for great crested newts is a vital way to help Yorkshire’s newt populations survive and begin to recover.
Great crested newt. Image: John Bridges
If you are interested in finding out more about this, click here or email info@ywt.org.uk
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