CORRINGHAM Primary School pupils got to grips with reptiles and other species thanks to DP World at Coryton.Over 50,000 animals have been re-housed as part of one of Britain's largest environmental protection programmes.
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.
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.
The mats have been checked over two million times during the summer of 2008.
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