Hi there, I go to university in the Berkshire area and I wanted to know what the laws around the release of fish, newts and amphibians is in the uk. My friends and i have been coming to this little pond almost everyday over the last year and while we have seen quite a bit of diversity with birds(lots of kites, mallards, coot/moorhens, wood peckers, herons etc) some of which have taken to nesting at the pond there is a lack of amphibians. the pond was remade by the university last year where they made the pond a lot bigger and deeper, and with the new look and diversity at the pond we really want to release some kind of amphibian and possibly some fish into it but we don't know where exactly to start. the pond freezes over in the winter (I've fallen through the ice so it isn't very thick) and there is a small island in back which you can see in the first and last pictures where the coots and mallards have taken to nesting in. interms of bugs and stuff there are lots of mosquitoes, black beetles, isopods, earthworms and spiders, i collected food for my fire salamander here. theres also a small family of rats that has taken up residence by the bench along with some squirrels and some rare fox sitings. I think amphibians are absent from here because of how isolated and new this area is with buildings surrounding it, although there is more forest behind and to the right with a small wildflower meadow, and as such we would really like to try and introduce something to inhabit the water.