The Great Crested Newt Conservation Handbook is a comprehensive guide to habitat management, pond creation and restoration. With individual chapters on newt ecology, legal protection and conservation measures, amongst others, this is an invaluable resource to enthusiasts and ecologists.The handbook is available in PDF format.
Registered: November 2006 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 12333
Review Date: Tue 19, October, 2010
Would you recommend it? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 8
Strengths:
Range of topics, best gcn guide, factual, offers advice to a wide range of parties
Weaknesses:
some of the sections are quite vague, could do with more habitat enhancement info
Overall this is a must for anyone interested in great crested newts or interested in working with great crested newts. This subject is not widely covered and this text offers a great introduction to managing habitats, newts and the law, biology, identification, advice for surveyors, and many more valuable facts such as how to plant a gcn pond and what species to use.
The only negative point I find is parts can be quite vague and more detail would be useful in some areas.
