It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it 🤷 Amphibian and reptile conservation involves a hefty amount of roll-up-your-sleeves on-the-ground work. Amphibian biologists often use a technique called dipnetting, which involves scooping a net along the bottom of a wetland to capture your target species - in this case, the striped newt. Dipnetting is an accurate way to estimate population abundance of an area and is just one of many methods used for sampling. This is just a small portion of the wo