Hundreds of thousands of frogs, toads, and newts are killed on UK roads each year during breeding migrations, with simple interventions dramatically reducing mortality.
Road mortality during breeding migration is a major welfare and conservation problem for amphibians. Toads killed by vehicles experience traumatic death, and migration failure prevents reproduction entirely. Volunteer toad patrol operations directly save individual animals and represent one of the most tangible and measurable wildlife welfare interventions available to the public.