The region's shinnery oaks are only four or five feet high, but they provide food, shade and a breeding ground for the small, brown dunes sagebrush lizard — otherwise known as the sand dune lizard.

A new hill figure has appeared in Dorset that aims to raise awareness of the endangered sand lizard. The temporary installation by artist Eilidh Middleton has been created in East Creech ...

Marwell Wildlife teamed up with Amphibian and Reptile Conservation and Forestry England to release the sand lizards at Puddletown Forest Rare sand lizards have been released into a Dorset forest ...