Save the toads in Edington!
Article in This is Wiltshire in the U.K. may help us save a few, innocent toads on their way home from work...
Excerpted from the article:
Julie Swabey, a district and county councillor who lives in Edington, is trying to form a toad conservation group and get road signs put up in the village.
Between February and early May large numbers of toads have to cross village roads as they make their way to a pond by the Priory Church.
Cllr Swabey said: "I'm a wildlife fanatic and something needs to be done to stop these toads being run over.
[we need people] who will volunteer to come out when it starts to drizzle or rain and pick the toads up and move them to the other side of the road so they can make their way to the pond.
"It would be really good if we could get some children involved because they are a very important part of the village, and also people from other areas would be welcome to come along if they wanted to help out."
"Unfortunately when a car comes along toads just freeze and that's how so many of them get killed," she said.
"Toads tend to come out after dusk which unfortunately coincides with the rush hour."
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