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50 Pond Challenge copyright Neil Philips - we dug a record breaking number of ponds in one day at Nevendon in Essex in October 2011
50 Pond Challenge copyright Neil Philips - we dug a record breaking number of ponds in one day at Nevendon in Essex in October 2011

Half of the UK's ponds were lost in the 20th century and of those that remain 80% are in a poor state. To help us protect freshwater wildlife...

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Problems with your pond? The (Pond) Doctor is in!

Having problems with your pond? Falling water levels, green water, nuisance plants, algae and blanket weed?

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Creating Garden Ponds for Wildlife

Creating Garden Ponds for Wildlife

Now available, our brand new booklet, ‘Creating Garden Ponds for Wildlife’, generously sponsored by World of Water Aquatic Centres.

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Our thanks go to World of Water Aquatic Centres for generously sponsoring our new advice booklet 'Creating Garden Ponds for Wildlife'

Pond Conservation is the national charity dedicated to protecting the wildlife of our freshwaters: ponds, rivers, streams and lakes.

We give advice, carry out research, promote practical action and lobby policy makers to ensure that freshwater wildlife and habitats have a secure future.

Piloting a new monitoring network for ponds

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With so little regular monitoring of ponds there is concern that declines in plant and animal groups (like dragonflies and amphibians) will go undetected. If you live in Cheshire, North East Yorkshire or South Hampshire, and would like to help us with trials of a new survey to collect pond information then click here to find out more

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  • Find out more about the Flagship Ponds Project

    The Wales Flagship Ponds Pilot Project

    Following the launch of our pilot Welsh Flagship Ponds Project, Dr Fred Slater has surveyed the first 12 of our top quality priority ponds - which (as expected) are showing high levels of biodiversity.

    Find out more about the Flagship Ponds Project
  • For more on the New Forest Pondscape Project

    New Forest Pondscape Project

    A major new landscape scale project to develop a strategy to protect the critical pond species and community types of the New Forest through targeted management and creation of ponds in the National Park.

    For more on the New Forest Pondscape Project
 
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