More than 1,000 toads may have died after a reservoir important to the local ecosystem was drained by a water company, conservationists in north Wales have said. Volunteers at Wrexham Toad Patrols help toads returning to the Nant-y-Ffrith reservoir on the Llandegla moors in breeding season, this year assisting 1,500 of the amphibians to cross busy roads to help protect the declining species. The group said it was “shocked, angry and heartbroken” to discover the reservoir was drained by Hafren Dyfrdwy over the Easter weekend, a few weeks before the toads were expected to leave the site. “Why now –
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