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Flagship Pond Training Day in Wales copyright Becky Good
Flagship Pond Training Day in Wales copyright Becky Good

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.

Contact us on info@pondconservation.org.uk or 01865 483249.

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Support our ongoing work to protect and create new habitats for all our precious freshwater wildlife in 2011.

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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.

Download the booklet here

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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'

Valentines Day Gifts from the heart...

Frog and hearts imageHelp Freshwater Wildlife feel the love this Valentine's Day and purchase a truly original gift for your loved one from our Give and Let Live ethical pond gifts.

Help us dig new ponds for the most endangered of our freshwater creatures like the cuddly Water Vole and the charismatic Natterjack Toad…

World Wetlands Day 2012 - 2nd Feb 2012

On World Wetlands Day this year Pond Conservation is celebrating small waterbodies.

From tiny ephemeral pools crawling with busy beetles to woodland ponds full of dragonfly nymphs, from garden ponds stuffed with frogspawn to farm ponds satiating thirsty birds and bees, it’s turns out that it’s the small things that make all the difference.

Wetlands landscape by Tim Bernhardt

Join Our Big Spawn Count

Frog Spawn for Big Spawn Survey

Have you seen frog or toad spawn in your garden pond? Then join in with our Big Spawn Count, so that we can find out more about the breeding success of our frogs and toads in garden ponds nationally.

The Big Pond Dip and Thaw surveys have given us a lot of new information about garden ponds. Now we are working with Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC) and Amphibian and Reptile Groups of UK (ARGUK) to find out more about the numbers of frogs breeding in garden ponds.

We are also keen to find out more about our common toad. Although, toads are less associated with garden ponds – there is some indication that the use of gardens is becoming more frequent due to loss of traditional breeding habitat. This is something we would like to find out more about.

Big Spawn Count banner all logosYou can take part in the Big Spawn Count by going to your pond and counting the number of spawn clumps present.

For more information about how to do this, and to enter your results online go to our Big Spawn Count pages

Million Ponds Project News - creating new ponds for some of our rarest BAP species the Pondweed Leafhopper and Pillwort

Macrosteles copyright Jonty Denton

Seven new ponds that have been dug for the rare but beautiful Pondweed Leafhopper (Macrosteles cyane) at Newdigate in Surrey are starting to fill. As an added bonus we've seen two other BAP species - Pillwort and Great Crested Newts, at the existing ponds on site, so there is every chance that they'll move across into the new ponds as well.

For more information about one of our rarest pond bugs download our Pondweed Leafhopper species dossier (Image copyright Jonty Denton).

Four new ponds at the RSPB reserve on Mallthreath Marsh in Anglesey have been dug for Pillwort and wading birds, including curlew and lapwing. The ponds benefit from Water Shrew copyright Martin Smithgrazing by cattle which will keep them open and in the poached condition that Pillwort requires. In the rushy areas of the fen 8 out of the 20 deeper ponds scheduled have been dug for species such as rare stoneworts, Tubular Water-dropwort, Marsh Stitchwort, Water Vole, and the less well known Water Shrew ( Water Shrew copyright Martin Smith)

Find out more about creating ponds through the Million Ponds Project

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  • What can I do to help my pond wildlife overwinter

    Looking after your pond in colder weather

    As the nights draw in and temperatures drop, people are starting to ask what they can do to look after their ponds over the winter. Using the findings from our Big Pond Thaw surveys, we have developed an advice note to help gardeners.

    What can I do to help my pond wildlife overwinter
  • 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
  • The Million Ponds Project

    MPP digs new ponds for amphibians

    The first of our new 3rd round Biffaward ponds are now being dug. We've started with 18 new ponds at the Forestry Commission site at Windy Bank benefitting our native amphibians - frogs, toads, smooth and palmate newts

    The Million Ponds Project
 
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