Amphibian and Reptile Conservation

🔊 REGISTRATION FOR #HWM2025 OPEN! Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC) and Amphibian and Reptile Groups of UK (ARG UK) are pleased to announce that registration for the Herpetofauna Workers Meeting 2025 on Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd February at Mercure Sheffield St Pauls Hotels & Spa is now open! Read the programme and book your place via www.arc-trust.org/HWM2025

In this latest blog ARC’s Conservation Director, Jim Foster, tells us how he thinks last year was a good one for book-worms and rounds up some of his favourite 2024 titles 👇 https://lnkd.in/e_rKxZu4

Every year at ARC we receive calls and emails from members of the public who have accidentally had a lizard or a frog climb into their holiday luggage, and travel home with them. We also get many calls about snakes, toads or any variety of herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles) that have ended up in the UK unintentionally through a variety of means. You can read our advice on what to do if you find a stowaway at https://lnkd.in/ej2vtyMQ https://lnkd.in/eASrz2R8

A few small changes in your garden - a log pile, some grass left long or a mini pond - can make a big difference for wildlife. Find tips for encouraging amphibians & reptiles into your garden in our leaflet Dragons in Your Garden. Go to https://lnkd.in/gZ6x2DyS.

Exciting opportunity!

📢 NEW REPORT PUBLISHED ARC is pleased to publish its strategy for natterjack toad conservation translocations in England, to help guide decision-makers and land managers. The natterjack toad has been the subject of multiple translocations in recent decades, with almost one third of sub-populations arising from translocation. With the species now listed as Endangered, we think it is useful to have a strategy that helps the sector decide when translocation is a useful recovery tool, alongside the other tools available, as well as setting out further efforts needed including evidence gathering. We welcome any feedback on the strategy. Read the strategy at https://lnkd.in/dVZHYveT ARC thanks Natural England for its support in producing the strategy.

JANUARY PRESS UP CHALLENGE 💪 ARC supporter Nick is challenging himself to do one press up for each amphibian and reptile species which is currently threatened with extinction, by the end of January, that's 4,719 press ups! All funds raised will be kindly donated to ARC to support our work, so if you would like to cheer him on please visit his fundraising page 👇 https://lnkd.in/eHgQ9iX3

THANK YOU TO OUR #HWM2025 SPONSORS 🙏🧡 The now SOLD OUT 2025 Herpetofauna Workers Meting would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors who help us to keep the meeting accessible for our volunteers and those on a lower income.

A new element of pool frog recovery is starting to take shape. With funding from Natural England, work has started at Banham Zoo to build a pool frog breeding facility. This will provide frogs that can be used to establish new populations in the wild as part of ARC's reintroduction programme. The project has been shortlisted for the Great British Wildlife Restoration Award. Read more about ARC's work to conserve the northern pool frog at https://lnkd.in/eTgENMBR

NEW BLOG: New proposals for the planning regime must demonstrate benefits for protected species like the great crested newt, says ARC’s Conservation Director, Jim Foster. Read this latest blog 👇 https://lnkd.in/eWkcJ7xe