UK’s first 'super' national nature reserve created in Dorset
by Steven Morris from Environment | The Guardian on (#50VA7)
Seven landowners join forces to create largest lowland heathland nature reserve in UK
It is a rich, complex landscape, a mosaic of heaths, woods, mires, reed beds, salt marsh and dunes that are home to a myriad of flora and fauna from rare birds, butterflies and bats to carnivorous plants.
Seven landowners have now joined forces to created what is being billed as the UK's first "super national nature reserve" (NNR) on Purbeck Heaths in Dorset.
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