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2012 is the Year of the Lizard? An initiative started by our friends “Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation” (PARC) across the pond, the Year of the Lizard is very timely as both Jersey and Guernsey NARRS surveyors will be keeping a special eye out for their slow-worms in 2012! Also a useful reminder that we really need folks across Britain to carry on with their hard work doing NARRS surveys in 2012 – especially for reptiles!

Pond Conservation are launching our ethical Christmas pond gift scheme, ‘Give and Let Live’, to help save Britain’s most endangered freshwater wildlife.

Each £1.00 that you give, will allow us to unlock a further £10.00 from the Biffaward pond digging fund, so we can create very special new homes for our precious aquatic plants and animals through our Million Ponds Project.

We'll then send you a special gift card, to pass on to your chosen recipient, with lots more information about your creature, and the ways in which your support will help to save it, plus a copy of our new booklet ‘Creating Garden Ponds for Wildlife’.

If you would like to find out more about the scheme, and the eleven creatures that we are supporting this year, why not take a look at the attached flier, or visit our web-site directly.

http://www.pondconservation.org.uk/ - and follow the ‘Give and Let Live’ link on the left hand side.

Contents

• Influencing Policy – National Ecosystem Assessment and the Natural Environment White Paper
• “Who’s been eating my tadpoles?”
• Million Ponds Project News
• Pond Conservation at the gardening shows

Contents

• The Big Pond Dip 2011...and the 2011 Big Pond Thaw results
• Are there fairies at the bottom of your garden?
• Conserving Natterjack Toads (Bufo calamita)
• Million Pond Project Up-date:
• the Pond Creation Toolkit expands
• the Biffaward BAP species fund
• working with our partners to train the nextgeneration of water managers
• new temporary ponds for Fairy Shrimps in Wales
• Million Ponds Project: amphibians

• News
• In the field - Cumbria natterjacks & grazing forconservation.
• Invertebrates - Rare beetles found on pool frog reintroductionsite.
• Million Ponds Project - An update on the project.
• Feature - Pool frog reintroduction site.
• Volunteers - A natterjack task at Woolmer Forest.
• Wildlife Trusts - Purbeck Wildlife Ponds.
• ARG UKHerpetofauna Workers Meeting 2011.
• UK Overseas Territories - So what about our other 135 herp species?
• Species Profile - Adder (Vipera berus)
• Fundraising and appeals
• Events
• Tail Enders - Useful foreign phrases.

In this issue...

• The 'Big Pond Thaw'
• Shaping government policy – our view onfreshwaters!
• Conserving the Fen Raft Spider
• Million Ponds Project Up-dates
• Scintillating stoneworts
• Otters love ponds too
• Batty about bats on the Isle of Wight
• Long term plans in Cheshire
• In safe hands in the North East
• Rare leafhoppers live on
• Dig more ponds with our Give & Let Live Campaign