natterchat Toads- two years on
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Plus… The fight for Scottish Nature • New Digital Technologies • Readers Wildlife Memories
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Help us find dragons... Page 2
‘From the CEO’
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Welcome
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The Return of the Toads
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www.froglife.org/sheffield-wetland-corridor
Gardening for common toads – –
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Bath Mini Toad Summit –
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(www.vikspics.com)
“Very interesting variety of
“Pitched very well with
talks. Lovely to see the passion
excellent variety of talks and
of different people and ideas.”
extremely relevant.”
Image 1 Using Virtual reality to understand life from a toad's point of view at the Bath Mini Toad Summit
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Image 2 Anna Ferguson (Charlcombe Lane Toad Patrol), The Mayor of Bath, The Mayoress, Kathy Wormald (CEO Froglife), Sheila Gundry (Development Manager Froglife), Angela Julian (ARG-UK)
Image 3: Guy Willcock at the Charlcombe Lane pond, Bath. Credit Guy Willcock
“Well balanced. Covered all areas + problems toad patrollers face. Learnt more about these lovely creatures (the toads that is!) :)”
“It was lovely to see so many people interested in helping toads.”
www.froglife.org/what-we-do/ education/london-tails-ofamphibian-discovery/t-o-a-dcampaign
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www.froglife.org/2019/02/18/mini-toad “Very well organised, learnt a lot and great for
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networking. Excellent mix of talks from different sources- nice to hear from large and small, new toad patrols” Page 9
Featured Project: London T.O.A.D ‘Creating a legacy for London, and its toads’
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www.froglife.org/what-we-do/ education/toad-virtualreality
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Image 1. Adapted infra-red camera ready for installation into one of the under road tunnels Inset: camera in-situ within a tunnel entrance.
Toads in tunnels – data from under road cameras
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Figure 2. Proportion of common toads making complete and incomplete crossings at three study sites
Figure 3. Proportion of adults and juveniles making complete tunnel crossings at each of the study sites.
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Figure 4. Numbers of common toads in tunnels in each hour of a 24-hour period, all sites and both seasons combined.
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Emerging Digital Technologies
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Identification
www.ispotnature.org)
Phone apps Augmented reality
Gaming for science!
Virtual classrooms –
(www.pocketpalsapp.com),
Windows into extraordinary worlds Nature networks
www.afocusonnature.org)
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How’s our wildlife doing?
Middle Path Pen Dinas on 1st May 2018, pre-strimming. Image Chloe Griffiths
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Middle path Pen Dinas on 13th August 2018, post strimming and heat wave. Image Chloe Griffiths
w w w . d r o p b o x . c o m / s/6jgt9mxlenmdsjt/2018 reptile survey Pen Dinas copy.pdf?dl=0 Working to clear Parc y Llyn pond on 29 Nov 2018 Image: David Kirby
Removing scrub from the Parc y Llyn pond: Image David Kirby Page 22
Common lizard on Tanybwlch SSSI in 2017: Image Chloe Griffiths
‘Early Outdoor Memories’- a reader’s response
Early Outdoor Memories
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Join the fight for Scotland’s nature
by Miriam Ross
Froglife is one of 35 charities calling for a Scottish Environment Act
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Tell the Scottish Government that Scotland needs its own Environment Act. Send an email now at
fightforscotlandsnature.scot/action
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CJ Wildlife – Your Garden in Spring & Summer
www.birdfood.co.uk
FREEPHONE 0800 731 2820
Vierno Froglü from CJ Wildlife Page 26
Press ReleaseTwenty-six Scottish charities receive donations from The Hospital Saturday Fund
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