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nature reserve

British

noun

an area of land that is protected and managed in order to preserve a particular type of habitat and its flora and fauna which are often rare or endangered

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It is Brighton and Hove's oldest local nature reserve and a team of volunteers has been helping to manage the grasslands to promote glow worms.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

"In 10 years, it's become a nature reserve."

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The movement was dubbed the Flamingo Revolution as the pink birds migrate to a nature reserve where the project is planned.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

To investigate the connection, Centrón and her colleagues analyzed 68 bacterial strains collected in 2018 and 2020 from sediment in a protected nature reserve in the Paraná delta, a wetland region north of Buenos Aires.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

We got to the nature reserve at around noon.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

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