They're bringing back a lost species after 2000 years... 

Show some love and support the lads work at Celtic www.gofundme.com/f/returnoftheturtle

Thank you for all the lovely comments everyone and thank you in advance for donating! We will be posting an update soon!

Seeing people passionately working on rewilding/ecosystem restoration, especially restoration of the little critters that many people forget about, never ceases to bring a smile to my face. Thank you so much for giving this amazing group the spotlight!

Great to see young lads so dedicated to the cause of rewilding and conservation. I'm not really competent enough to do much to help but I always try to give to worthy causes like this :)

I don’t think people realize how important frogs and toads are to the environments in which they live. Not only do they reduce insect pests, like a canary in a coal mine, but also their presence or absence says volumes about the health of an ecosystem. Their skin is porous and they react to pollution very quickly. The sand lizard is so lovely. Our modest suburban home backs on a river in Delaware, USA. The river was horribly polluted by industry and efforts have been made to clean it up. We have many more amphibians and beavers have returned…we are now in the 4th or 5th generation. We have so many herons nesting in the marsh across the river. The river has a “ways to go” to really clean it up, but I’m amazed by what a difference we already see. In the spring the sidewalks are full of Snapping Turtles looking for love and on summer evenings toads are out feeding under the street lights. My favorite is the sound of Peeper frogs calling for mates in the spring. Very impressed with your project!

Great project !! ❤ This year a frog made my tiny pond its home. It has a favorite rock for sunbathing. I enjoy it a lot.

It's surprising and shocking to hear that so many species of the British herpetofauna once went extinct or critically endangered on the islands. I grew up in Hungary and although, the populations are declining due to changes and intensification of agricultural methods, habitat fragmentation and effects of climate change (longer and harsher droughts, dry springs) but the sand lizard, pond turtle, pool frog and tree frog are still relatively abundant species in the countryside. I am very happy and excited about the outcome of this project! Furthermore, I hope it will reach many people in the public who can support your work. And also changing the general view about the wildlife in the UK that it's more diverse than many people thought.

These two young guys are amazing. such passion and drive and they have achaived so much already. well done and great job Rob for helping raise awareness of their work.

Remarkable. Species I was unaware of that were British. Well done everyone.

I love this kind of stories , we need more people like them 😁

Really good video thanks for sharing I’ve known Harvey and Tom since they first setup years ago and wish them both well 🐸💚🐸

Love this,as a herp lover it be great to see a wider range of species return. It does feel even compared to the continent, we were a bit deprived of Reptiles and Amphibians

We have lost so many due to habitat loss ,pollution.traffic ,A big thumbs up to all those involved.!

What an amazing person!

I have such hope that the young people will save our earth from what my and previous generations did to it. We were able to “save the whales”, institute recycling programs, close the hole in the ozone layer, reduce vehicle exhaust, but it hasn’t been enough. Thank you all for cleaning up our mess, I’m sorry you have to!

Lovely stuff herps really are one of my favourite group's i was the only person in the group to catch a gcn in my trap and was such a thrill.

Thanks for bringing us this video. It’s not just large herbivores that need reintroducing. It’s amazing, and sad, to understand more about what has been lost.

Great to see some more success from Celtic!👏🏼 I’ve got a project starting soon thanks to the help of Harvey, can’t wait to share it on my channel!😁

Beavers, frogs, turtles, all trundling about the ponds... it's so beautiful to see the jolly fat little fellows home at last.

At 81 I remember them from my childhood. I think when were in the cotswolds as we moved about a fair bit.

The reintroduction of beavers is key for these species

I am grateful for people like Harvey and Tom who are dedicated to helping nature and making an impact with something that they are very passionate about. I hope 🤞🏻 they receive more than enough funding to continue their work well beyond their 5 year goal!! 🐢🦎🍀

When I first moved to SW Scotland, I was amazed at the millions of frogs in my largish garden. I thought that the diversity in skin colour must have been natural, even though I'd never seen it elsewhere. As well as the Common Frog, I accidentally dug up a blue one, picked up a rock to find a distinctive purple one, and still occasionally find one that has quite a bit more yellow than the Common Frog. Sadly, the days of Neonicotinoid pesticides very nearly wiped out all our frogs and toads. I have never seen a blue or purple one since - but then I haven't disturbed the area I found it since. We are still recovering from the Neonicotinoid environmental disaster, but happy to say that frogs are starting to make a comeback, newts are thriving, and Common Lizards arrived here for the first time this summer. If I see another blue or purple frog, I will definitely be contacting Celtic. They may welcome a chance for some genetic diversity.

This is so cool to learn about! Thanks for sharing this amazing project with us! I love that so many places are learning about their native species and working to help them 🙏🏽💗

Such exciting news 🎉

I'm always so shocked just how broken is UK's wildlife. Like sand lizards? Those that I commonly see every year here in the central Europe? How broken must be UK's wildlife to have sand lizards classified as a rare species? Not to mention many and many more creatures that are doing a lot better here on the mainland. I'm happy for people like you that do something with that and I hope, that when I'll be old, I could hear how much you've fixed your island country and how it's doing a lot better

Thanks!

i love your work man! super inspiring

When I was a boy you could find sand and common lizards close to my house. There was just a small patch of land at the end of the road, and there was a colony there

Always happy to hear of peoples efforts and have the optimistic side of me fed when so often the news I hear just makes me feel more disheartened.

Thanks

Great video and story Rob, and well done to Celtic Reptile Amphibian for your fantastic work!

Amazing work

I NEEDED, to see this, this evening. I don’t know where you are but I want to come work for you. Please do not give up on the hard work you do. The world needs people like this. Maximum love

This is amazing stuff. I donated and I am not a great charity giver.

Brilliant well done, 👍

Great work

Donated! :)

Hip hip hurray!!!! I learned so much. Its wild how you have exotic looking lizards there! Priceless work that should be backed by the government. Thanks for your honorable work!!!🙌💚💚💚💚

This is a great project. You should write to Westminster and invite the minister to visit.

I would recommend Frensham ponds Surrey for turtle release warm sandy banks shallow warm ponds Sand lizards used to abound in that area when I was a boy. Many ponds across the heathlands of southern England but many already infested with Terrapins etc also many ponds on the heathlands of east anglia also provide warm dry conditions .

On it! Just goes to show how little it takes, in experience, money, number of people..., to make a huge impact!

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Fascinating video Rob, another example of how we don’t really know how much we have lost.

Absolutely beautiful work. Thank you.

i was involved in a sand lizard re-introduction sceem, in the new forrest as part of my disertation. it was a sand lizard when i was about little watching it in the forrest that inflamed my budding animal love( already had, a budgie, tropical fish, teripins, gerbals and my fav shadow a dog)

Wow this project is amazing! I wish we could do a similar project in Norway as we are losing one of our frogs. Amazing animals some I had never heard of 💚🩵💙I wish you every success! 🦎🐢

Could we know more about this turtle? Especially why it was not thought be native and how they determined it was.

The people involved in these, and similar, projects are true heroes. The positive effects will be felt for generations.

I am impressed very much by the work which Harvey makes.

Has a review been done on the impact of releasing turtles on local wildlife? When people released unwanted terrapins back in the day, it was seen as disastrous.

Very nice 👍

Brilliant 👍👍

Very cool :)

SWEET!

Well done ! This is stunning!

My sister live in hills in crete and has little lizards

I absolutely love the term "re-wilding".

Well done! I think that there's a turtle of some sort living happily in the canal just outside festival marina, Stoke on Trent. Might not be the right variety though as It looked much bigger.

Damn, you in the UK realy have messed up the ecosystem, good thing great people like Harvey are fixing it.

This reminds me of a episode of Avatar The The Last Airbender, there a episode where sucking on frozen frogs heals a sickness.

I want more videos like this! This is awesome. I want to do the same in France. How can I?

They lived here In prehistoric times.

Any reason why the Norfolk Pool frog was considered non native? The release of non native amphibians over the last 150years.

Wilding😂 young people crack me up making up silly words .

A human and a turtle in the picture and you felt your audience needed a red arrow in order to figure out which one is returning

Working just to allow nature to supply the systems that answer some of our ecological needs and problems. Good, common sense mission these guys are on. Thank goodness for them and what they do.

When you have those animals living in an environment, you know that the area is unpolluted.

These turtles are carnivorous and a lot has been made out of them cleaning the water of dead bodies of mice etc., but i'm just wondering what kind of impact they will make on frog and tadpole populations, also on newts who may also become prey, like with the dragonfly and damselfly populations and other aquatic animals in the ecosystem?

Bro is flipping and tossing that poor turtle around a lot as he's holding it, talking with his hands. Jostling it! 😢

I understand that money is so important for these essential and amazing projects, but people such as myself don't really have the money to donate. Time and time again I offer to donate my time, but it falls on deaf ears. I would love nothing more than to help bring back species and land.

Harvey and his team are doing fantastic work, but why the 'Celtic ' name.

humancentrism is absolutely disgusting good work

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Those lizards remind me of the collared lizard where im from, we get a tax write off for keeping rock glades clear for habitat

How are you getting them used to new environments when you move them? Most turtles get used to a very small range and die if you move them too far away

The turtles can be used to keep down the numbers of the invasive crayfish ..

Who knew turtles and treefrogs native to the uk!

why no lottery funding? causes like this are a positive force for nature fund them properly

Not keen on the turtles, as they are a pest for fishermen in USA, they eat young fish and if you need to unhook one they will try to bite, (their neck is longer than you think)

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If they died out 2000 years ago, was that due to humans as well?

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Love this content. But please don't touch the animals if not needed

Wasn't the world flat 2000 years ago ?

Terrapins are destructive and great efforts are made to remove them from our waterways.

So they all come back, what's stopping them disappearing again, I'll tell you nothing.

Forget about the turtles. It’s looking like that hair do is about to go extinct

So all these frogs were once indigenous to the UK ? I have never heard of this before - where have I been to miss this - where is Celtic wildlife based ?

After 2000 years ? Anybody ever think maybe they disappeared for a reason ?

Thanks!