Tipical Dutch! saving the "rugstreeppad"

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I was walking in a multi functional nature, sporting and recreation area near the town of Veenedaal in the Netherlands! it's a campsite, hiking and mountain bike trails and even a dirt track for of road bikes! Then all off a sudden, my eye fell on these two woman who were looking at some fences in the middle of the dirt track!

And of cours that made me a bit curious! So I walked over there and found this! Fences and barrier tape!

There were two puddles put in the fences all the way around! First I thought that they did this because to protect the dirt track from damaging! because we all know those dirt bike riders, they all want to hit those puddles!

But when I look further I saw a little sign with the words "rugstreeppad bescherming" ore natterjack toad protection!

This is an endangered species in the Netherlands and after some big rain storms, a couple of those frogs decided that a puddle like that was a good location to put there eggs in there! i now know why they are endagerd... 馃槀

But it was so warm back then that he puddles were drying out! So the local nature preservation organisation rolled out a hose and a pump and started filling up the puddles again!

Does these kind of things also happen in your country?

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