Teenage Mission to Rewild Britain with Reptiles and Amphibians ???? ???? ????

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Big predatory species such as the wolf and lynx are sensationalist animals and draw attention from a wide audience, so the significance of amphibians can at times be underestimated. But Not to Harvey Tweats and Tom Whitehurst.

Two teenage boys are on a mega mission to rewild Britain. Like other young people, Harvey and Tom are having to study from home, but they are been keeping busy building an amazing project. They want to replace the toads, frogs and lizards to British ponds, lakes and wetlands once more. They want to restore reptile and amphibian species that are either virtually extinct or have been extinct for centuries in this country. They are also nurturing the common toads, which have declined by 68% in Britain since the 80s.

Celtic Reptile & Amphibian is due to open soon and will hopefully be be the country’s largest outdoor breeding facility for reptiles and amphibians. In the long term, they hope that the European pond turtle (which they source from Moldova) and the Aesculapian snake, already unofficially released in a couple of UK sites, are reintroduced.

They have secured the financial backing of leading rewilders, and they are already earning sponsorship from their YouTube channel and one of their European pond turtles has appeared on Countryfile on BBC One. This allowed them to rent a half-acre patch of ground 10 minutes’ walk from their homes for their new breeding facility. They are still working on the site and are currently building a security fencing for the enclosures with rat-proof mesh and a quarantine area.

Ultimately, they want to breed thousands of amphibians and reptiles to support conservation programmes and bring back species including the pool frog, moor frog and the agile frog on Britain’s new beaver-created wetlands. Collectively amphibians assemble into a massive superorganism that feeds so many species. All these different species inhabit slightly different niches in the ecosystem.

• This article was amended on 12 January 2021. Due to an editing error, the European pond turtle was incorrectly described as an “amphibian”.

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Story source:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/10/who-doesnt-love-a-turtle-the-teenage-boys-on-a-mission-to-rewild-britain-with-reptiles

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxAhv62Nle2xjA7Lax8-Yg

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