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Newsletter of the Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK Newsletter of the Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK  

Contents

• New Forest Smooth Snakes..1
• Scaling the City......... .........2
• Other Atlases............ .........3
• The Natterjack Today...........4
• Natterjack Notes 2012... ......5
• HSI Chytrid Survey ...... .......7
• Million Ponds Project....... ....9
• Wales' Real Dragons...........10
• Big Spawn Count................11
• Uncommon Cornish Lizards..11
• East Kilbride Frog Survey.....12
• Forest of Dean Wildlife.........13
• Air Mail Amphibian..............14
• Around the ARGs................15
• Conference Time................17
• Keep in Touch....................18

Newsletter of the Amphibian and Reptile Groups off the UK

Contents

• Adders in Parliament
• Grass snakes in Scotland
• HWM 2012
• Add an Adder Anecdote
• Artificial Refugia
• Agile Frogs in Jersey
• How Green is my Valley?
• Venom Day
• A Passion in Pictures
• Around the ARGs
• On the Internet

Newsletter of the Amphibian and Reptile Groups off the UK

Contents

• Green Agenda 
• Chytrid Study
• Merseyside Sand Lizards 
• 50 Pond Challenge 
• Scottish Herp Meeting 
• Million Ponds Project
• The Big Pond Thaw
• Scientific Papers 
• Online Chytrid Survey
• On the internet
• Around the ARGs 
• Keep in touch

Newsletter of the Amphibian and Reptile Groups off the UK

Contents

• Herp Workers' Meeting 
• Reptile relocation 
• Save the Frogs Day 
• Great Easter Newt Hunt
• Big Swab 
• Salt & GCN mortality 
• Adder Genetics 
• British Herp Symposium 
• Scientific Papers 
• TV Star Praises ARG 
• Around the ARGs

• Warwickshire Pond Creation
• Around the ARGs
• Turtle Hoax
• Herpetofauna Workers' Meeting 2011  
• Warwickshire's Top Reptile Site Damaged
• Reptile Habitat Management Handbook
• Albino Slow-worm
• Drift Fence Assists Toad Crossing
• Last Orders for Million Ponds Funding
• A Day in the Cyprus Hills with Snake George
• Fish Control Methods for Great Crested Newt Conservation
• Review: Silent Summer 

• Onwards and upwards
• Around the ARGs
• Chytrid update
• Scientific paper review 2009
• Bats, toads and planning
• Help for pond management
• Request for records of Melanism in snakes
• Lost Life - new publication
• Amphibians and the OPAL water survey
• Conservation volunteers unite as firemen save the day
• 100% fund
• Review: The New Naturalists

• ARG UK 100% Fund gets off to a flying start
• NARRS update 2009
• Million Ponds Project launched
• Scientific paper review
• Pond status - Countryside Survey 2007
• Review: Interactive Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of the British Isles
• Interview: John Newton, Chair of South Yorkshire ARG
• Change in frog spawning dates
• News from the ARGs
• The ARG UK 100% fund project review
• Dutch road crossings in Worcestershire

• Around the ARGs
• Rough guide to BAP
• Care of CB2 torches
• Interview: Howard Inns, Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
• Review: Britain's Reptiles and Amphibians, Howard Inns
• Water beetles great and small
• Funding for herp habitats
• Midlands Regional Conference report
• Conferences
• Julia Wycherley
• Grass Snakes return to Gibside

• Chytrid in the UK?
• Crossing the line
• Waving goodbye to our amphibians?
• How cool is newt swabbing?!
• The ARG UK Supporters Scheme is launched
• Interview: John Wilkinson, Herpetological Conservation Trust
• Section 41 Listing - things you need to know
• News from the ARGs
• ARG conference roundup
• Toads on Roads Update
• Plantlife's new Pond Plant Education Pack
• How to photograph snakes
• The ARG UK 100% Fund is launched
• Bringing the Natterjack back in Cumbria
• Biodiversity reporting for 2008

• Alien encounters?
• Top tips for reptile surveyors
• A Million ponds
• The North West slow-worm hunt
• Calling all toad patrols!
• Conserving the Hungarian Meadow Viper
• Midwife Toad's return to Cambridge
• Exotic snakes from palm-fringed Doncaster
• ARG UK South East regional meeting
• National Amphibian and Reptile Recording Scheme (NARRS) 2007 update
• Between £100 and £200 million's worth of data is inaccessible to conservationists
• Farmers to be paid to dig ponds for natterjacks in Ireland
• Boost for Berkshire Great Crested Newts
• Newt protein may offer key to regeneration
• Interview: Tony Gent, CEO, The Herpetological Conservation Trust
• Green frogs in the UK
• Great Crested Newt occurrence in Herefordshire
• Regenerative medicine advance: frog tadpole artificially induced to re-grow its tail
• The terrapins of Hampstead Heath
• Northern Australia - cane toads dying from unknown disease
• Widespread species project
• Herpetofauna workers' meeting 2008

• NARRS – the national surveys begin
• Making compost count for slow-worms
• Herpetofauna workers' meeting, Coventry, January 2007
• Coventry raises funds for cobras
• A call for conservationists to work together across Europe!
• Monitoring toad populations
• Interview: John Baker, ARG UK secretary
• In search of the Jersey grass snake
• Mapping the Adder in the Peak District National Park
• Scientific paper review
• 100 years on and they're still going "peep"!
• New ARG for Bucks
• The HCT and BHS Scientific Conference
• Gulley pots and Great Crested Newts
• The Toad Patrol - New Alresford & Avington Hampshire
• Sand dune management for sand lizards
• ARG insurance - some FAQ's
• Caption Competition

• What is ARG UK?
• Who is ARG today for?
• Make the adder count
• Homing toads and BBC Midlands Today
• Midwife toads in Mid Wales
• Herefordshire's landmark pond project and atlas
• Herpetofauna and the law
• The Arkendale great crested newt experience
• Free insurance cover for ARGs!
• Interview: Jan Clemons, first chair of ARG UK
• Scientific paper review
• Review of the ARG UK southern region meeting, 22nd April 2006
• Does your ARG hibernate over winter?
• Caption competition
• South East Amphibian & Reptile Groups of the UK, Conference 2006