Funds Earmarked to Save Rare British Toad
Associated Press
LONDON —
A British company says it will spend the equivalent of $1.4 million to create new breeding grounds for about 500 rare Natterjack toads.
The toads’ present home is in the path of a planned railroad on the site of British Nuclear Fuels’ complex at Sellafield in the northwest England county of Cumbria.
The company said Thursday that it will dig new ponds, divert a stream and landscape an area with the toads’ favorite soil and plants before moving them from their present home.
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