Research has revealed how tiny amounts of DNA (eDNA) released into water by great crested newts can be used to monitor the species. This can bring benefits for its conservation, and help protect great ...

A trained detection dog was highly accurate at finding great crested newts underground or at a distance, which might aid conservation efforts for this highly-endangered species, according to a study ...

Night-time searches by torchlight have begun for a rare water beast in Powys. Wildlife volunteers want to know if great crested newts are breeding in Llandrindod Wells lake again after blue-green ...

Newt so fast, Ed Sheeran: The singer’s plans to build a private, non-denominational chapel on his property in Suffolk, England must await the results of an ecological survey regarding the possible ...

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A man has cut his hair in honour of the great crested newt to raise awareness of the amphibian's plight. Tim Strover, from Appleby, told BBC Radio Cumbria he became interested in the creatures after ...

A skin-eating fungus that has wiped out 95 per cent of the salamander population in Belgium and the Netherlands has arrived in the UK. It is related to the chytrid fungus, Batrachochuytrium ...

Catbrain Hill may have one of the weirdest names in the UK, but it is also an area that edges on to the Brabazon development on the old Filton Airfield. It is also being developed with new properties ...

Wildlife volunteers want to know if great crested newts are breeding in Llandrindod Wells lake again after blue-green algae starved it of oxygen, killing thousands of fish. Brecknock and Radnor ...