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STOKE, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 14: A Moor frog, rana arvalis, once native to the UK, sits in an enclosure at Celtic Rewilding in Staffordshire on October 14, 2025 in Leek, England. The small frog likely went extinct in the UK due to fenland drainage and deforestation. Celtic Rewilding, headed up by environmentalists Harvey Tweats and Tom Whitehurst, is the largest outdoor breeding facility for reptiles and amphibians in the UK. The centre is currently working towards the reintroduction of three frog species, agile frogs, moor frogs, and European tree frogs, and the European pond turtle, all of which have gone extinct in Britain due to pre-industrial human impact, land degradation and climate change. The aim to reintroduce these species, absent from the country for thousands of years, back into ecosystems, will in turn help restore missing elements of the food chain and act as living indicators of habitat quality and hydrological health. (Footage by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)