Re: GC Newts and development


"Liz" <Liz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fp3da0$6di$1@xxxxxxxxxxx

"Robert Seago" <rjseago@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Did anyone hear the person from Cheshire on Radio 4 today? Apparently a
big sum of money was spent on relocating just 4 specimens of Great
Crested
Newt, before a development could go ahead.

GC Newts are considered endangered over Europe, but certainly in Essex
they are around in fair numbers. They have to be considered if we do
anything within 50 metres of a breeding pond at the reserve I look after,
which practically covers the whole reserve.

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Regards from Bob Seago: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/rjseago/

By law, a licence is needed for any proposed works within 500m, not 50m,
of Great
Crested Newt terrestrial habitat and breeding ponds.
Our property is next to a nature reserve which was bought by our local
Wildlife Trust
partly because of the GCNs and partly for a rare water snail. We have all
three
species of newt in the garden, but particularly GCNs, to the extent that I
suppose we
really should have a development licence to do virtually anything in the
garden or
polytunnel. Last year the coal bunker was an impressive hibernaculum with
over 50
newts present. Fingertip searches were needed before we could take any
coal out.
They also appear most evenings, along with the toads and frogs, and sit
round the
moth trap outside the polytunnel waiting for their evening meal. I have
also seen
them sitting waiting with the toads and frogs outside the polytunnel
before I switch
the trap on. Can amphibians learn? Things got even more complicated
last year also
when I discovered a Natterjack Toad under a flower pot. I suppose that's
two
licences I should have!


Your garden sounds fascinating. I bet there must be times when it's a
problem mowing the lawn ...


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