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Newt-crossing
March 3, 2022 - Petaluma, CA: The Chileno Valley Newt Brigade is a group composed of volunteers with the goal of protecting newts as they cross a busy road that divides their mating grounds from their grassy homes. When a newt is spotted a volunteer will document it and help it across the busy road.
  • La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

Gary Bucciarelli in The Guardian.com: Pacific newts threatened at road crossings are already getting hammered hard by the climate crisis

The newts are “dealing with more prolonged droughts and changing precipitation patterns due to climate change, they’re dealing with wildfires”, Bucciarelli said. “They’re getting hammered hard.”

March 31, 2022
  • Nature & Conservation

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