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New Ponds Help Great Crested Newts

Natural England is a group that protects nature. It runs a system called District Level Licensing. This scheme has helped to build or fix 4,747 ponds for great crested newts. These are small animals that live in water and on land. The scheme lets builders pay for new ponds in good places. They do this instead of protecting newts on…

Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Natural England blog. Read the original for the full report.