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Britain’s frogs, toads and newts need you!
PETER FROST meets one family taking positive action to save our threatened populations of frogs, toads and newts
The common frog (Rana temporaria)
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
ANYBODY concerned about our countryside and the creatures that live in it will be particularly worried our native amphibians. Britain doesn’t have too many frogs, toads and newts and it certainly can’t afford to lose any more.
The common frog (Rana temporaria) lays spawn by March in most parts of the country. The large masses of jelly and black eggs are easy to spot.
Toads and newts have eggs too but are harder to find in smaller ribbons or even folded neatly into the leaves of aquatic plants.
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