The home of beloved newts at the University of California Botanical Garden in Berkeley is in jeopardy unless the garden’s Japanese pool can be renovated this summer, officials at the garden said.

The officials are trying to raise $150,000 by June 30 for the renovations, which must be made because repairs are no longer feasible to maintain the pool’s structural integrity.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.