Creature comforts – from DP World

As part of a £50m investment into safeguarding the environment, a team of 25 ecologists are collecting thousands of animals including water voles, Great Crested newts, adders, grass snakes and lizards and are relocating these animals to new homes, which have been created by DP World. Many more species are set to be collected over the next 10-15 years.

One of the methods to catch reptiles includes laying over 23,000 mats across a 78 hectare site, which provide a protected environment reptiles can shelter under. The ecologists turn the mats twice a day to collect the reptiles.

In addition to this, over 25 kilometres of specialised ecological fencing has been erected, which is used to direct reptiles into buckets buried in the ground.