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Quick answer
Froglife's is campaigning for toad-friendly roads through our
Toads on Roads project.
Further
information
Common toads migrate to ancestral breeding ponds each spring and
sometimes their route takes them across a road. Consequently
some roads have thousands of animals crossing and, inevitably,
traffic leads to the deaths of hundreds of common toads in a
matter of nights. If you come across sites where amphibians are
dying on roads, please make contact with us, via our
Toads on
Roads campaign. We can add 'amphibian migratory crossing' sites
to a database which forms a resource for the Government's
Department for Transport; this allows for road warning signs to
be applied for from the local council.
Common frogs and newts may also be found at 'toad crossings' but
they don't tend to migrate en masse as toads do.
Froglife also coordinates groups of volunteers around the
country who undertake Toad Patrols, physically helping toads
across roads while providing important data for research into
recent road declines, and is campaigning for toad-friendly roads
to be the norm.
on...
Native amphibians.
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