During February and March, volunteers head out after dark with buckets and florescent jackets to stand on roads across the UK ...

The volunteers in Gloucestershire help common toads, like this one, cross roads to their ancestral breeding ponds A volunteer who helps amphibians cross roads so they can mate says Gloucestershire ...

Numbers of the common toad are declining in the UK, often because they are killed as they travel back to breeding ponds A group which has helped save hundreds of toads is looking for more people ...

A group which has helped save hundreds of toads is looking for more people to join its patrols. The Seahouses Toads on Roads group looks after amphibians making their way to their springtime ...

Jersey Biodiversity Centre (JBC) wants people to record wildlife they see in their ponds, in particular palmate newts, agile frogs and western common toads. Emily Wagdin, from the centre ...

Islanders have been asked to become citizen scientists in a bid to help Jersey's newts, frogs and toads. Jersey Biodiversity Centre (JBC) wants people to record wildlife they see in their ponds, in ...

Amphibians are land animals, but can only reproduce in water. They prefer to live in and around small bodies of water. But ...

(Win McNamee/The Associated Press) A volunteer with the Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group prepares to assist a common toad across a road during the annual migration to a nearby breeding lake in Bath ...

The group is part of a national campaign by the charity Froglife to help halt the decline of the common toad. Research suggests their numbers have declined by 68% in the last 30 years, with road ...