A company behind a "habitat bank" says it hopes to end "compromised meaningless ecological enhancements" on developments.

The Wildlife Trusts describe great crested newts as looking like mini dinosaurs. Known as the "warty newt", the amphibian is protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, while it ...

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OUTLANDER star Sam Heughan is hoping distillery plans are not put on ice — by newts. He took over Crafty Distillery in Newton ...

The UK's wild newt populations seem to be free from a flesh-eating lethal fungus known to be prevalent in privately-owned amphibians across Western Europe, a nationwide investigation has found. The UK ...

Research 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 conservation, and help protect great ...

EASTCOURT, England—The bane of Britain’s great and powerful is a couple of inches long, has warty skin and a bright orange underbelly—and the power to disrupt some of their most heartfelt ambitions.

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