For two years Mike Flaherty and his son have braved the chilly late-winter nights as they head out on "toad patrol" in ...

At the centre of the action is Martin Thompson, 71, who has a nickname affectionately used on patrol nights. "They call me ...

Last year, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trusts’ Education and Engagement team at Swanwick Lakes Nature Reserve rescued 170 toads and seven frogs found trapped along a secu ...

Despite this, Gloucestershire is a busy county for toads. Every year, volunteers for the Gloucestershire Toads on Roads ...

For the past fifty years, thousands of volunteers have been helping the amphibians cross roads up and down the country. In fact, according to the charity Froglife, two million toads have now been ...

Volunteers surveying dormice and bats in trees have made the unexpected discovery of over fifty common toads in nest boxes and tree cavities at least 1.5 meters high. Volunteers surveying dormice and ...

Dedicated volunteers have safely guided more than two million toads across British roads during their annual spring migration over the last 50 years, a wildlife charity has revealed. As "toad ...

The UK's toad population could be facing a bleak future because of a deadly fungal disease. The deadly chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is highly effective at causing extinctions ...

Common toads, with their heavy-set bodies and short limbs, are regarded as typical terrestrial amphibians. “There is no shortage of papers on common toads; they are a very well-studied species,” says ...

January to April is a time of mass migration for certain animals who we often see too late ...