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The Isle of Wight Reptilarium and Terrapin Sanctuary is also dedicated to creating real conservation efforts in our local area, check out this conservation blog to stay up to date with the work we have been doing.
Conservation Summary 2022 - 2023
Since the end of all lockdown restrictions (remember them..) we have been able to get stuck into our conservation actions, Here is a...
Neil Reed
May 29, 20231 min read
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How do we decide what we house in our collection?
as we are a zoo a lot of people imagine we send people out to the jungle dressed like something out of Jumanji to bring back animals in...
Neil Reed
May 12, 20233 min read
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Recording Biodiversity
Whilst we are out and about doing reptile monitoring we also spot many other species, Our aim is to catalogue all of the flora and fauna...
Neil Reed
May 5, 20231 min read
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Native Wildflower Planting
Bees and Butterflies need all the help they can get, thats why this winter we scattered almost 2000 UK Native wildflower seedballs into...
Neil Reed
May 5, 20231 min read
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2023 Native Reptile Monitoring Begins
Now the weather has finally started to warm up (slightly) we are out and about again monitoring the native reptile populations in the...
Neil Reed
May 5, 20231 min read
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Spring is on the way!
Today I checked up on our Reptile survey tins, sadly 3 have gone absent without leave over the winter, perhaps they have migrated? so I...
Neil Reed
Feb 20, 20231 min read
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Pond Maintenance
Pond 2 in the Country Park has now completely dried up, the Newts that were in there a few months ago trying to breed have vacated, there...
Neil Reed
Jun 23, 20221 min read
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Stag Beetle Pyramid
Now we have some freshly cut logs from a dead tree in the country park we have made a start on our first Stag Beetle Hotel pyramid....
Neil Reed
Jun 23, 20221 min read
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Unusual occurrence of Reeves Muntjac deer
Warning blog post contains images of dead animals... Bit of a strange one today, after receiving a report from a local dog walker via the...
Neil Reed
Jun 20, 20222 min read
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Wildlife Recording
Not only do we record the reptiles and amphibians that we find, we are also cataloguing other forms of wildlife we see in the Country...
Neil Reed
Jun 15, 20221 min read
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Palmate Newt breeding confirmed
Had a dip (with a net) in the ponds at the Country Park after we closed yesterday, really pleased to report there were still some adult...
Neil Reed
Jun 14, 20221 min read
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Slow worms Confirmed at Fort Victoria
Its been a few weeks since we laid out the refugia for our herpetological survey of the country park, and am very pleased that after the...
Neil Reed
Jun 13, 20221 min read
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The Great Stag Hunt is on
Really excited that the presence of Stag Beetles in Fort Victoria Country Park has been reconfirmed after a member of the public, Graham...
Neil Reed
Jun 6, 20221 min read
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Wildflowers - Part 1
With over half of the UK's butterflies placed onto the IUCN red list at risk from extinction, the time to act is now before its too late....
Neil Reed
Jun 3, 20221 min read
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Cigarette Butts!
When it comes to beach cleans we dont just don the high vis jackets once a year to a fanfair of look at us cleaning a beach, its...
Neil Reed
Jun 1, 20221 min read
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Driftwood bee hotel
This morning the sea provided us with a great little piece of extremely heavy driftwood, so i repurposed it into a Bee hotel and...
Neil Reed
May 26, 20221 min read
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Stag Beetle Monitoring
Here in the country park we have great habitat for stag beetles, every year we walk the park throughout stag beetle season (May to July)...
Neil Reed
May 25, 20221 min read
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HIWARG Meet up
On the 23rd of April I met up with the guys from HIWARG (Hampshire and Isle of Wight Amphibian & Reptile Group) and other local...
Neil Reed
May 25, 20221 min read
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Newt Survey
We recently surveyed the population of Newts in our two ponds here in the Country park, really pleased to see both ponds had good numbers...
Neil Reed
May 24, 20221 min read
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Wall Lizards
We have been monitoring a population of Wall Lizards here on the Island, Typically found on the South Coast in Ventnor, these ones are a...
Neil Reed
May 24, 20221 min read
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