First year student Alex Diana and his supervisor, Dr Eleni Matechou, took part in field work sampling for newts.

The long-running project, coordinated by the Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent, collects data on newt populations breeding in ponds located near the Canterbury campus.

They saw and identified male and female great crested, palmate and smooth newts. They also learned where newts place their eggs and what male newts do to attract the females (thanks to a very vivid description by Professor Richard Griffiths from DICE!)