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 ...

Research by the University of Kent 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 ...

The great crested newt is the largest and rarest of the three species of newt that can be found in the UK Authorities may have to kill fish that were placed in a Southampton lake due to the threat ...

Great crested newts are threatened amphibians that live in lowland areas of England, but their underground lifestyle makes them tricky to find. Scientists have now trained a dog to sniff out the ...

Merrow Wood (Burleigh Lane Crawley Down Ltd) has applied to demolish numbers 9-11 Woodlands Close, Crawley Down, and to build the new homes with parking space for 111 cars. The homes would be built on ...

A golf club in the Borders is changing its approach to course maintenance - in order to help protect some unexpected guests. The discovery of great crested newts in a greenside pond has prompted the ...

Boris Johnson has vowed to do “whatever it takes” to protect newts in his garden – even though they could stop him from building a new swimming pool at his country manor. The ex-prime minister has ...

Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman, one of the titans of Wall Street, may finally have met his match in the tiniest of creatures: the English great-crested newt. The private equity boss has been trying to ...

Leicester City have 89 great crested newts sharing their training ground at Seagrave. The club knows this because the newts are counted, regularly, at night. The club is also constructing a league ...

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 ...