National Nature Reserve
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National Nature Reserve is a United Kingdom government conservation designation for a nature reserve of national significance for biological or earth science interest.
The term was first introduced in the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 which gave the Countryside Commission and Countryside Commission for Scotland the powers to designate reserves.
