Road-shy populations of the endangered snake are now being given a helping hand thanks to the construction of Britain's first adder tunnels.
The two tunnels running beneath a road bisecting Greenham and Crookham commons in Berkshire have been designed to appeal to reptiles. Britain's only venomous snake has vanished from central England because of persecution, habitat fragmentation and the growth of pheasant shoots, with non-native pheasants predating the small vipers.
"We've got a biodiversity crisis. We need to be doing new and innovative things," said Tom Hayward the senior land manager at the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) charity. "We need to be thinking outside the box as to how we benefit these species."
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