The results of a ten-year study into the Jersey toad – or crapaud – have revealed it to be a crucially important species in a league of its own, as it is found nowhere else in the world.
Since 2005, 281 local volunteers have been carefully recording the amphibians’ annual activities, mostly in garden ponds, as part of the Environment Department’s ‘Toadwatch’ project.
The expert who started the initiative when he worked at Durrell, Dr John Wilkinson of the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation in the UK, says every Islander should be proud to be called a crapaud, which started out as a derogatory ethnic slur in old Norman French.
Read more in Toadwatch News Focus on pages 8 and 9 in Monday’s JEP.
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