Toad road signs in Burry Port and Ammanford

"Toad road signs in Burry Port and Ammanford"
25.01.2011

Warning signs have been installed on two Carmarthenshire roads to help toads looking for love to cross in safety.

The roads at Burry Port and Ammanford bisect areas registered as important migration sites.

So Carmarthenshire council put up the signs warning motorists to drive carefully as hundreds of the creatures cross every spring.

Each year volunteers collect the toads in buckets to help them across the highway en route to breeding ponds.

But they cannot always be on hand around the clock to help the common toad, which was listed as a threatened species in 2007.

So important sites are being registered with national wildlife charity Froglife as part of its Toads on the Roads mapping scheme and signs erected to help publicise migration routes.

Froglife has mapped more than 700 crossings using satellite technology, via website Google Earth, including active routes staffed by volunteers in Wrexham, Ceredigion, Powys, Neath Port Talbot and Newport.

Fajna i słuszna akcja. Jedyny problem jaki z nią mam, to wątpliwość, czy podjęto by te same kroki, gdyby gatunek nie był zagrożony.