DaveJ
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- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I was rather alarmed a few years ago when the Fire Service came round checking that ponds and other non-mains water sources were still as mapped, to learn that if the pond had great crested newts in it they wouldn't touch it. And we know that our mains is cr*p as when neighbour had a barn fire (lightning strike) they had to bowser water in.
Practically every pond in this area has GCN in in the breeding season.
I can assure you. Whatever may be currently trendy in some office in HQ, if there is a pressing need for large quantities of water, newts would come a long way down our priority list.