We are delighted to announce the launch of the annual Herpetofauna Workers Meeting #hwm2026, jointly with @arc-trust.bsky.social at the Crowne Plaza, Glasgow, 31 Jan-1 Feb 2026. Follow the link for bookings. www.arc-trust.org/herp-workers...

Booking is now open for the 2026 Herpetofauna Workers' Meeting #HWM2026 which is being held in Glasgow on Saturday 31st January & Sunday 1st February. To see the draft programme, booking arrangements & other useful information go to the ARC website page at www.arc-trust.org/Event/herp-w...

🚨 Only 30 places left for #NBNconf25 ! With 2 weeks to go, we’re nearly full — book now to join us in Bristol! 🐝🌿 🎤 Programme & speakers: bit.ly/NBNconf25 #Biodiversity #Data #Networking

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for bird flu via the forms below ⬇️ 📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep... 📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/.../daera-de.... 📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report

🦇 This is the last chance to protect species from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Ask your MP to keep Amendment 130: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/11...

Anybody out there who has any current or recent slow-worm records in north east Scotland?

Join ARC & The British Herpetological Society for a popular one-day conference covering a broad range of herpetology topics, providing networking opportunities with herpetology enthusiasts and professionals! Learn more and book 👇 https://www.arc-trust.org/Event/arc-bhs-joint-scientific-meeting-2025

Very much enjoyed putting finger to key to wax lyrical about an often ignored species for @teamneyedc.bsky.social for the #Yorkshirein100Species. Here’s to number #96 the slow worm www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species/...

Occurrences of people dumping live or even dead exotic snakes seem to be on the increase. Not only are the snakes likely to perish but there's a risk of transmission of disease vectors to native species. uk.news.yahoo.com/scary-24-inc...

I loved @hamzayassin.bsky.social's Hidden Wild Isles; especially Nigel Hand's passionate plea for adder conservation. These beautiful snakes are declining in UK and desperately need better habitat management and protection @arc-trust.bsky.social @argroupsuk.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Keeping a small area of grass unmown throughout autumn & winter can benefit wildlife. Long grass offers protection to all sorts of creatures, from beetles & bumblebees to frogs & toads. More ways to create a wild autumn garden: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/wild-…#rewildingn#biodiversityty

On a survey a grass snake under a cover object is easier to spot compared to ragged pieces of slough caught up in the vegetation. Both on a National Trust site being surveyed by a local ARG

Use of cover objects for reptile surveys need to be well away from public areas. Now it's not a very useful cover object after it's been used to stand a disposable barbecue on it

Conservation sssssuccess! 🐍 16 years after Smooth Snakes were reintroduced to a Devon site, surveys last year recorded 39 individuals, a 25% jump on the previous high of 31 in 2023. www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Can now add Aughrim Hill, Attical (Mourne Mountains) to the Common Lizard map for N Ireland. First sign was a shed skin and then 2 juveniles spotted on a sunny bank 26 Sep 2025 @argroupsuk.bsky.social #woodlandtrust #ukwildlife #HSI #reptile #lizard #zootoca #northernireland #nature

A male adder returned close to its hibernaculum. Dartmoor. @argroupsuk.bsky.social

Booking is open for the 2025 Joint Scientific Meeting from the British Herpetological Society & Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust

Currently the many wet days don't help when reptile surveying. As you say not much time left to find new sites.

💧 Our #rivers are polluted, overheated, & stripped of their natural features We’re calling on the government to make #SpaceForWater and support a network of nature-rich river corridors across England ✍️ Sign the petition to help restore our rivers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

It’s a wrap! #SEH2025 has been a blast and it’s been amazing to see old faces but meet so many new ones. Thanks to all that made it such a memorable conference. #Herpetology #Amphibians #Reptiles #SEHCongress2025

My new #WildlifePond has a long way to go, but it will get there!

Cool today with sunshine & showers at Whitehead, Co Antrim but lots of common lizard sightings! My favourite pic was this trio of juvenile lizards in the grass beside the Blackhead Path @argroupsuk.bsky.social #ukwildlife #HSI #reptile #lizard #zootoca #northernireland #nature

We need your help again. Coul Links is an extraordinary coastal dune habitat, home to rare and remarkable wildlife. But it is now threatened for a second time by plans for an 18-hole golf course that would cause irreparable damage. Your voice could help save it. 👇

🚨BILLBOARD MESSAGE DEMANDS MSPS ACT NOW TO SAVE NATURE 🚨 A pair of billboards appeared on Edinburgh’s busy Market Street today with an urgent message for Scotland’s MSPs. With 1 in 9 species in Scotland at risk of extinction, MSPs must act now! www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/billboard-me...

Are you coming to the Vanishing Viper Conference on 6-7 September (or if you aren't). We have organic cotton Ts and hoodies. greenharedesigns.co.uk/product-cate... Order direct from Green Hare incl. postage, or free pick up from the event. DEADLINE FOR CONFERENCE PICK UP ORDERS IS MONDAY 25th AUGUST

Join us at #vanishingviper2025 - at the University of Chester on 6-7 September 2025. Deadline for registrations is 28th August. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanishing-...

Reminder that we are still open for you to offer presentations or workshops for #HWM2026 in Glasgow. After the #VanishingViper conference in early September work will start organising HWM2026

⚠️ The Planning and Infrastructure Bill remains a threat to nature. The Government has tabled several amendments to Part 3 of the Bill. These amendments have plugged some of the gaping holes in the Bill, but they don’t go far enough. Read our response: freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/respons...

Get to know your Yorkshire snakes this #WorldSnakeDay. 🐍 www.ywt.org.uk/blog/jon-traill/snake-grass 📷 Chris Cull

That's a mighty dessication crack in the soil

We need more co-operation between species groups as shown here with Derbyshire ARG & BTO sharing the gazebo. Also more hands make it easy to put up & take down

First baby lizards of 2025 at Blackhead Path, Co Antrim. Very early again this year (same date as 2023) thanks to a sunny May/June incubation period. @argroupsuk.bsky.social #ukwildlife #HSI #reptile #lizard #zootoca #northernireland #ireland

Join us for Act Now, Change Forever - the most impactful climate & nature lobby in history💪 Together we’ll be calling on MPs to protect what matters most: our health, our nature, our communities, our climate & our future🌱 Sign up now👇 www.theclimatecoalition.org/act-now-chan...

bsky.app/profile/uk-w... Please help us find out more about #travellingtoadlets - record your sightings here www.recordpool.org.uk/travellingto...

#Terrapins! Given someone dumped a River Cooter in an Aberdeenshire loch in 2024, I checked in the Winter Gardens here; found 25 of 3 genera ! Sliders Trachemys, cooters Pseudemys & map turtles Graptemys. 3 subspecies of slider. Thx Suzie Simpson @turtletallyuk.bsky.social @argroupsuk.bsky.social

Toadlets are in the move! We are delighted that so many of you who are spotting tiny toadlets are recording them on Record Pool - we will model the outcomes and share of course. Thanks to all for your help. www.recordpool.org.uk/travellingto...

More evidence for the successful use of wildlife underpasses! 🐸🦎

It’s been a biggest ever PondNet #SpawnSurvey, with 2,657 records! Thank you for looking out for spawn and sharing your sightings. 🐸 The records will go to Record Pool, a national database run by @arc-trust.bsky.social and ARG UK for research and conservation. The 2026 survey opens in December 👀

Please help us gather information on toad metamorphs for 'Travelling toadlets'. we are running in partnership with @ukceh.bsky.social the University of Chester & Froglife Details & reporting sightings at www.recordpool.org.uk/travellingto...

Nature is in trouble in Angela Rayner’s constituency, with records of species down in recent years & local protected nature sites in poor condition🥀 MPs must fix the Planning Bill to restore species & protect community access to nature 👇 www.wcl.org.uk/mps-put-on-n... #WilderByDesign

Good news. Nighttime visit to the degraded suburban Hum Hole ponds reveals that Palmate newts are still there :) #amphibians #UKwildlife

See our contribution on Restoration & Rewilding And how they can be combined to accelerate nature recovery

📢 We're delighted to announce David Cooper @hdavidcooper.bsky.social as the new Chair of JNCC! jncc.gov.uk/news/new-jnc... ✨ In addition, Professor Julia Jones @juliajones.bsky.social joins JNCC as a new independent committee member jncc.gov.uk/news/new-joi... 🤝 Welcome aboard, David and Julia! 🌿

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Some of our Groups have been helping out with sampling this month for @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social Great Crested Newt eDNA Project which has been running now for 11 years. This is DerbyshireARG and the 2 ponds in the county that they recently sampled.

ARC are very happy to partner with @argroupsuk.bsky.social and University of Chester to support Vanishing Viper 2025, being held in Molloy Hall, University of Chester on 6&7th September 2025. 🧵 #vanishingViper2025

Want to do one thing to dramatically increase wildlife? Create a pond! 💧 Our Technical Director Pete Case joined the Roots and All podcast to dive into the world of garden ponds, covering how to create one and what makes them such a powerful tool for conservation: rootsandall.co.uk/podcast/gard...

Reptile survey mats have been placed on Hackney Marshes. These will be used in an ongoing survey with LARG the main species that we will be on the lookout for is the Grass snake, but these mats will also be useful to monitor small mammals after the long term recovery project led by ReNature.

It is #INNSweek, or Invasive Species Week. www.nonnativespecies.org/non-native-s... @bbs-birds.bsky.social volunteers count all birds they see and hear, including invasive non-natives, like Ring-necked Parakeet, Egyptian Goose and Canada Goose.

A farm holiday in Devon with the grandchildren provided few opportunities but I did manage to fit in one morning visit to Dawlish Warren and was thrilled to see some Sand Lizards - including one male in full breeding colours 🦎@argroupsuk.bsky.social #ukwildlife #HSI #reptile #lizard #sandlizard