Where in the Wyre?

Please join us on Thursday 20th November for a special online evening event to find out more about the amphibians and reptiles living in the Wyre Forest. We will start the evening with a presentation on the ecology and behaviour of our resident amphibians and reptiles, and then find out more about the new UKCEH models that will help us to understand which habitats will be most suitable for them, and how to monitor and conserve them better (image: common lizard, copyright Kevin Clarke).

Presentations will be followed by an open discussion session, with an opportunity for you to find out more about the programme, and how you can get involved in surveys during 2025-26.

Presenters:

Dr Angela Julian, Coordinator, Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK

Dr Emma Gardner, Quantitative Ecologist and Modeller, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

About the ‘Where in the Wyre’ Conservation Programme

Responding to local concerns about declining reptiles and amphibians, and particularly our native adder, which is already facing local extinctions in other parts of England, a new project in collaboration with Natural England, Forestry England, Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK (ARG UK) and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, is finding out more about the distribution and abundance of reptiles and amphibians in the Wyre Forest NNR. Although we are focussing on adders, the survey aims to find out more about all of our herp species, so please also look out for slow-worms, common lizards, grass snakes, common frogs, common toads and newts.

Images: Kevin Clarke, Tim Baker, Nicola Devine, Angela Julian