Newt Patrol

Newts are endangered amphibians. Amphibians have to return to water to breed. Many thousands of Pacific newts were killed each year, as they crossed a busy highway to their breeding ponds in the Chileno Valley, north of San Francisco. These amphibians are now being protected by the Chileno Valley Newt Brigade (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/26/california-pacific-newts-volunteers-cross-road). The Chileno Valley Newt Brigade are volunteers who go out on warm, humid nights, when Pacific newts are likely to attempt to cross the highway from their grassland 'homes'. It seems not at all unreasonable to offer these inoffensive, little animals some protection from speeding vehicles.