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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity. A lake at the RSPB West Sedgemoor nature reserve in Somerset This is a list of RSPB reserves.
Before the site was protected as a nature reserve, it was considered as a candidate location for a Universal theme park in the 1990s, [1] [2] [3] but a site in Paris was eventually chosen. [4] [5] This project failed to materialize. [6] In 2000, the area of land was bought from the Ministry of Defence, who used it as a test firing range. [7]
The reserve was bought by the RSPB in 1977 using money raised in a sponsored birdwatch by the RSPB's junior branch. The name Fowlmere comes from the nature of the site before 1800 when it was an area of open water which was a habitat for large numbers of wildfowl. In 1850 attempts were made to drain the area but failed.
RSPB Leighton Moss is a nature reserve in Lancashire, England, which has been in the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds since 1964. [1] It is situated near Silverdale , Carnforth , on the edge of Morecambe Bay and in the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty .
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a charitable organisation registered in England and Wales [1] and in Scotland. [2] It was founded in 1889. It works to promote conservation and protection of birds and the wider environment through public awareness campaigns, petitions and through the operation of nature reserves throughout the United Kingdom.
Location map: Magic Map: Rye Meads is a 58.5-hectare ... The RSPB reserve has ten birdwatching hides, trails and a visitor centre. Birds include kingfisher, ...
Titchwell Marsh is an English nature reserve owned and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Located on the north coast of the county of Norfolk, between the villages of Titchwell and Thornham, about 8 km (5.0 mi) east of the seaside resort of Hunstanton, its 171 hectares (420 acres) include reed beds, saltmarshes, a freshwater lagoon and sandy beach, with a small ...
RSPB The Lodge is a nature reserve run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), named after the building there, The Lodge, which is their headquarters. It is located south-east of the town of Sandy, Bedfordshire , in England.