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nature reserve

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noun

  1. 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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They are expected to leave the South Lakeland nature reserve in September and migrate to the Iberian Peninsula or West Africa.

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

Testwood Lakes nature reserve, near Totton, Hampshire, was evacuated as police marine units began the search on Wednesday afternoon.

From BBC Jun. 27, 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

“One of the biggest in the nineteenth century. Much of this area is a nature reserve now.”

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya

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