Amphibian & Reptile Consultants in Herefordshire

• Nigel Hand  www.centralecology.co.uk

• Will Watson www.pondecologist.com

Local and national groups

• ARG UK  www.arguk.org
  ARG UK promotes and helps to co-ordinate the work of Amphibian and Reptile Groups in Britain and Ireland.

• Amphibian and Reptile Conservation www.arc-trust.org
  (formerly the Herpetological Conservation Trust)   
  ARC produces a series of advice sheets which can be downloaded from their website

• Froglife  www.froglife.org
  Froglife produces a series of advice sheets which can be downloaded from their website:

  1. Frogs, toads and newts in garden ponds
  2. Snakes need friends
  3. Amphibians and roads
  4. Signing toad crossings
  5. Reptile and amphibian recording
  6. Conserving grass snakes
  7. Unusual frog mortality
  8. Exotic reptiles and amphibians in the wild
  9. The planning system and site defence
  10. Reptile survey
  11. Surveying for (great crested) newt conservation

• Pond Conservation   www.pondconservation.org.uk
  Million Pond Project www.pondconservation.org.uk/millionponds

• Herefordshire Nature Trust www.herefordshirewt.org

• Herefordshire Biodiversity Partnership www.herefordbap.org.uk/partnership.htm

• Centre for Aquatic Plant Management www.capm.org.uk
  Leaflets on invasive pond plants are available from their website

• Natural England www.naturalengland.org.uk

• Environment Agency www.environment-agency.gov.uk

• British Dragonfly Society www.dragonflysoc.org.uk

• Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group www.fwag.org.uk

• Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust www.earthheritagetrust.org

• The Sites and Monuments Register www.herefordshire.gov.uk

Other sites of conservation interest in Herefordshire

• Herefordshire Bat Group  www.fly.to/hereford_bats

• Herefordshire Ornithological Club  www.herefordshirebirds.org