Don't squash the toads

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Please drive carefully between sunset and 9pm on Oakwood Drive and the road into Holywell Car Park. Toads and frogs may be on the road migrating to their breeding ponds on campus.

Toads and frogs migrate in the spring to their breeding ponds. This usually involves them crossing roads where unfortunately high numbers are killed every year. Road fatalities are usually the single biggest cause of otherwise healthy amphibian populations in the UK collapsing.

Holywell lake and the pond near Oakwood Drive are both breeding sites for common frog and common toad. To reach these ponds, they need to cross the road leading to Holywell Car Park and Oakwood Drive respectively. On both roads, toads and frogs are killed annually.

Please take care driving along these roads, particularly in the hours after sunset. What may look like a leaf or a piece of mud, may in fact be a amphibian trying to get to the pond to breed! Please drive carefully around them, or better still (if you're able) move them to safety. Thank you.

Posted by Richard Fenn Griffin (extension +447891950575)