Skip over main navigation
  • Log in
  • Basket: (0 items)
  • Contact
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
  • Join today!
  • Donate
  • Appeals
  • Members
  • Shop
  • FAQs
  • Twitter
Menu
  • ARC & COVID-19
  • About us
    • Our history
    • Benefits of our work
    • Who's who
      • Staff
      • Trustees
      • Patrons
    • Partners & Funders
    • Polices & Position statements
    • Work with us
  • What we do
    • Conservation
      • Our reserves
      • Saving species
      • Saving habitats
      • In Europe
      • Overseas
    • Education & Training
      • Training
      • Education
      • School work placements
      • University placements & dissertations
    • Influencing policy & Legislation
    • Projects & Partnerships
      • Regional projects
      • Partnership work
      • Past work
    • Science & Monitoring
  • Reptiles & Amphibians
    • Report your sightings
    • Frogs, Toads & Spawn
    • Newts
    • Lizards
    • Snakes
    • Non-natives
    • Their habitats
  • Help & Advice
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Gardens & Ponds
    • Snakes in gardens
    • Escaped pet snakes
    • Amphibian disease
    • Reptile disease
    • Habitat management
    • Planning & Development
    • Free adder photo library
    • Wildlife crime
  • Ways to help
    • Volunteering
    • Donate
    • ARC Membership
    • Sponsor a species
    • ARC Guardians
    • Legacies & Gifts in memory
    • In memory giving pages
    • ARC Corporate Supporters
    • Employee Action Days
    • Fundraising for us
    • More ways to help
  • News & Events
    • Latest news
    • ARC eNews
    • Conferences
    • Events
  • Admin
    • Log in
    • Contact
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
  • Basket: (0 items)
  1. Reptiles & Amphibians
  2. Their habitats

Habitats

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation is working to conserve the habitats on which our species depend, whether by managing important sites directly or influencing policy to protect them.

Our amphibians and reptiles occupy a wide range of habitats, from undisturbed heathland to highly urban gardens. Follow the links below to find out more about each habitat type:

Saltmarshes

Saltmarshes

Saltmarshes provide ideal foraging habitat for natterjack toads. Read more

Published: 26th July, 2016

Updated: 21st August, 2016

Author: Kim Boughey

Lowland Dry Heath

Lowland Dry Heath

Lowland dry heath is, on a global scale, more rare than tropical rainforest. Read more

Published: 1st May, 2016

Updated: 26th July, 2021

Author:

Ponds and scrapes

Ponds and scrapes

Ponds and scrapes provide very important amphibian breeding sites and are used by all our native amphibians. Read more

Published: 11th April, 2016

Updated: 21st August, 2016

Author: Abby Louis

Sand dunes

Sand dunes

Coastal sand dunes provide one of the best habitats in Britain for the natterjack toad. Read more

Published: 11th April, 2016

Updated: 21st August, 2016

Author: Abby Louis

Sustainable Drainage Schemes (SuDS)

Sustainable Drainage Schemes (SuDS)

SuDS are created to manage water in a more environmentally sensitive way than traditional drainage schemes. Read more

Published: 10th April, 2016

Updated: 21st August, 2016

Author: Kim Boughey

Other Habitats

Other Habitats

There are a great many other habitats which are used by our amphibian and reptiles. Read more

Published: 1st April, 2016

Updated: 25th June, 2020

Author: Abby Louis

Back to top

Showing 10 of 6

Latest

  • What does a heatwave mean for amphibians?

    What does a heatwave mean for amphibians?

    How hot weather affects our frogs, toad and newts.

  • ARC Reptile Survey Training Event - Friday 12th August 2022

    ARC Reptile Survey Training Event - Friday 12th August 2022

    This free online training event is an introduction to reptile ecology and survey skills useful for observing reptiles in the UK, with a special emphasis on ARC’s flagship Snakes in the Heather project.

  • Unstoppable SSAAR: events, arts, fieldwork and DNA – it’s all happening in Scotland!

    Unstoppable SSAAR: events, arts, fieldwork and DNA – it’s all happening in Scotland!

    In her latest update ARC’s Education Officer for Saving Scotland’s Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAAR), Janet Ullman fills us in on what the team have been up to come rain, snow or sunshine!

  • Onwards ‘n’ Upwards volunteering with ARC - whatever the weather!

    Onwards ‘n’ Upwards volunteering with ARC - whatever the weather!

    Our Dorset team have been working with Onwards ‘n’ Upwards to help individual learners overcome various mental health challenges by engaging with nature through volunteering on our nature reserves.

Most read

  • Facts and advice on adder bites

    Facts and advice on adder bites

    Facts about adder bites and answers to frequently asked questions about prevention and treatment. This text is based on ARC’s research and experience, published evidence, and authoritative sources.

  • Slow-worm

    Slow-worm

    Where to find slow-worms (legless lizard), how to identify them, their lifecycle and protection status.

  • Adder

    Adder

    where to find adders, how to identify them, their lifecycle and protection status.

  • Smooth newt

    Smooth newt

    Where to find the smooth newt, how to identify them, their lifecycle and protection status.

  • Vacancies

    Vacancies

    Come and work for us! See our current vacancies.

  • Report your sightings!

    Report your sightings!

    Let us know which amphibians and reptiles you've seen

  • Common lizard

    Common lizard

    Where to find common lizards, how to identify them, their lifecycle and protection status.

  • Frogs & toads FAQs

    Frogs & toads FAQs

    Frequently Asked Questions about... frogs and toads!

  • Grass snake

    Grass snake

    Where to find grass snakes, how to identify them, their lifecycle and protection status.

  • Great crested newt

    Great crested newt

    Where to find the great crested newt, how to identify them, their lifecycle and protection status.

Tag cloud

amphibian conservation amphibians biological recording citizen science community science conservation England mobile app monitoring reptile conservation reptiles Scotland survey hub surveying UK Wales
ARC eNews

ARC eNews

Sign up and receive our e-Newsletter Read more

Published: 27th April, 2017

Updated: 18th November, 2021

Author: Kim Boughey

Latest tweet

  • Home
  • Our reserves
  • Projects & campaigns
  • Garden & ponds
  • Record your sightings!
  • News
  • Volunteer
  • ARC Corporate Supporters
  • Donate
  • Contact

  • [email protected]
  • 01202 391319

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
744 Christchurch Road
Boscombe
Bournemouth
Dorset BH7 6BZ

ARC Ecological Services Ltd
744 Christchurch Road
Boscombe
Bournemouth
Dorset BH7 6BZ

Details of our Privacy Policy can be found on our Policies page.
See the ARC Website Terms and Conditions and ARC Shop Terms and Conditions
The Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust is a registered charity (England & Wales no. 1130188, Scotland no.SC044097).
We are committed to the conservation of amphibians and reptiles.

Company number 07817747

Privacy Policy

Become an ARC Member

Become an ARC Member today and help us give a voice to the UK's amphibians and reptiles - saving species, improving habitats and enhancing lives in the process

Join us today

Manage Cookie Preferences