A male great crested newt with warty skin, orange underbelly, dark spots and a white flash down its tail.

The Great Crested Newt

The great crested newt has had a really hard time over the last century. This began with the loss of farm ponds that were no longer needed for watering livestock or other farming operations. Newts moved to industrial ponds within brickworks, tilery ponds, gravel pits and water storage reservoirs at airfields and mines. By...