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Did you mean Wildlife reserve?
How local authorities can select a site, and then declare and manage it as a local nature reserve.
Read how Ingleborough National Nature Reserve (NNR) trialled different tree protection methods to minimise impacts from sheep and deer grazing to support woodland regeneration.
Find nature reserves, national parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and green spaces
A brand-new volunteer, community, and nature research science hub has been officially opened at the iconic Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve
Offers to help farmers and land managers protect wildlife and preserve the natural environment.
Read how Natural England are monitoring and managing significant browsing pressure from deer at Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve (NNR) in West Sussex.
You need a licence to keep certain kinds of wild or dangerous animals: contact your council for more information
Open and closed season for hunting, what you can use and the wildlife you can hunt
Find out more about the reserves, where they are, who manages them and what special features or opportunities they offer.
• Sand lizards, nightjars and natterjack toads are among the litany of species that people can enjoy at new Wealden Heaths National Nature Reserve in Surrey
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