The number of assessed species on the IUCN Red List is now 163,040, with over 45,000 threatened with #extinction. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is a critical indicator of the health of the world’s #biodiversity.

A bit warm for the start of our 6 week early autumn reptile surveys but still found some slow-worms & common lizards near Bakewell in the #peakdistrict this morning Tomorrow we are at Cutthorpe for grass snakes & to be followed with 7 more surveys planned up to early October.

JOB 📢: one week left to apply to join us at ZSL Science for a 3 year postdoc position on #NatureBasedSolutions!! Deadline 8 Sept 2024 More info: careers.zsl.org/vacancies/285/… BES careers EcologyJobs EcologyJobs #HiringNow

A study looking at slow-worms near the edge of their range in southern Spain

Day 1 of #pondweek 2024. Almost 2 ponds finished already. Here we are with the wood cleared ready for the digger

Adult and neonate Common Lizards at Pickering Woods yesterday. Whitby Naturalists ARG UK North Yorkshire Moors Railway Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Froglife ARG UK Get Wild 🐦 🦋 🐝 🍃 The Wildlife Trusts Kent Wildlife Trust The rain earlier has brought all the frogs out in my wildlife garden tonight... #thanet #wildlife #frogs

Reptile sloughs are valuable for research. If you come across any clean ones in Wales please send them into this ARC/Bangor Uni project.

Basking boardwalk beasts Natural England Cumbria Roudsea, common lizards, black darters, bog bush cricket and raft spiders

Session 3 at #ConsGen2024 started off with a keynote by Jeanette Hall - ask me about woods (and newts) with case studies of conservation genetics in practice. My personal favourite was the #crested #newt conservation story in Scotland, much to be learnt from this example.

2nd reptile survey last weekend recorded 2 grass snakes, a black youngster & a very large adult (too quick so no photo) replaced missing ACO & did a bit of cutting back vegetation that was overhanging the cover objects

CRAG's Stephen Green is looking for shed skins, to help with research on adder genetics. If you find any, or if you have some in your nature collection, please email him via [email protected].

Pond Dipping! at the Furry Glen this Saturday 7th Sep from 12:00-13:00 and 14:00-15:00 for the This always turns up some goodies! 💚🐸🐟🦎☘️🏞🪲 #phoenixparkbiofest

3 adders seen today including this young one. Not a newly born. I think it is probably a year old. ARG UK British Herpetological Society

For the Urban Pond Count there's only one pond in the grid square selected for Derby City. We have arranged with the Council's Parks Dept to do the survey there next week.

With a lovely client in Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust Wyoming Brook yesterday. A fabulous place to see all sorts of plants and animals. We saw several small toadlets, only about 15mm long. Liz Ballard (Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust) Wild at Heart

Looking for baby lizards on the boardwalk at Peatlands Park, Co Armagh (3 Sep 2024) when I came across this huge fly - the aptly named Tachina grossa ...and there were indeed a few baby Common Lizards about too!

A selection of sightings from a sunnier day - photos from volunteer Graham. The viewing platforms at the start of the seasonal wetland discovery trail have been a good place for dragonfly & damselfly spotting. 📷Red Admiral, Willow Emerald, Grey Wagtail and Common Lizard.

NewPaper Alert! ARG UK Dr Steven Allain Amphibian and Reptile Conservation @herpcons Migrations and Seasonal Patterns of Habitat Use in the Adder (Vipera berus): Implications for the Conservation and Management of Local Populations. From Dirk Bauwens & Katja Claus Paul Hudson