Volunteer residents use buckets to help migrating toads cross roads to reach their mating grounds
Residents of a Derbyshire village are celebrating 10 years of protecting toads from traffic during their annual migration.The team of about 40 volunteers believes it has saved about 20,000 toads from being killed since 2013.Normally moving at dusk, the common toads cross from fields where they have spent the winter.A year after the patrol was set up, the village was registered with charity Froglife.
The roads then became official migratory crossings, complete with warning signs to alert motorists and pedestrians. Every day during the breading season, volunteers equipped with buckets transport dozens of toads to the pond.Villager Simon Corble, who set up the group, said the mission for toad safety was supported by all ages."It was really distressing for people, driving along or walking through the village, to see corpses lying everywhere," he said.
"We've got roads going in all directions that the toads have got to cross. That's why we need about a dozen people at a time to cover the entire village."We've got a big body of people behind the mission now. There's young ones coming through as well that will take over.Mr Corble said the patrol helped increase awareness of wildlife in the village and "how precious it is", adding he hoped it would continue for many more years.
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