{"id":455153,"date":"2026-03-03T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455153\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:38:08","slug":"somerset-toad-patrol-helps-thousands-of-animals-cross-road-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455153\/","title":{"rendered":"Somerset toad patrol helps thousands of animals cross road safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Toad patrol volunteers helped almost 10,000 animals cross a road last year, volunteer say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Toads on Roads Patrol is a group of volunteers going out every night between January and March to Hawkridge Reservoir on the Quantocks in Somerset to carry toads, frogs and newts over the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group is part of the part of the Froglife national patrol programme and is continuing to help with the crossings this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott Passmore, who lives in Spaxton and runs the group, said: &#8220;We live in the village and this is on our door step. Every year, up to 10,000 animals cross the road and it takes just one car to come down and there&#8217;s a lot of casualties on the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toad patrol volunteers helped almost 10,000 animals cross a road last year, volunteer say. The Toads on Roads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-455153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}