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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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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

Police, including marine teams, have been carrying out extensive searches at the 150-acre nature reserve.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

A major search and rescue operation is under way after a 15-year-old boy who had been swimming at a nature reserve went missing.

From BBC Jun. 24, 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

“Certainly, that night at the nature reserve was one of the low points.”

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

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