Wet spring and warm June may have benefited Ireland's 'boom-or-bust' natterjack toad

Some 200 Natterjack toadlets were released today onto a local farm in Castlegregory, Co Kerry, as part of a joint project between the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) and Fota Wildlife Park, which aims to bring this endangered species back to its former home. The project has to date released over 9,000 toadlets in Co Kerry. Picture: Valerie O'Sullivan
This year’s wet spring and even the extreme warm temperatures in June are thought to have favoured Ireland’s only native toad — the natterjack.
Some 200 tiny toadlets, bred in captivity in Fota Island Wildlife Park from collected tadpoles were released on Tuesday back into ponds on a farm in Castlegregory.