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An avocet at the RSPB's Minsmere reserve. This species is used in the RSPB's logo. Today, the RSPB works with both the civil service and the Government to advise Government policies on conservation and environmentalism. [17] It is one of several organisations that determine the official conservation status list for all birds found in the UK.
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.
RSPB Minsmere is a nature reserve owned and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) at Minsmere, Suffolk. The 1,000-hectare (2,500-acre) site has been managed by the RSPB since 1947 and covers areas of reed bed , lowland heath , acid grassland , wet grassland , woodland and shingle vegetation.
The reserve sits on the Greensand Ridge, overlooking the River Ivel valley and includes areas of broadleaved and coniferous woodland, acid grassland and heathland.The area surrounding The Lodge was covered in heathland prior to the 19th century, when it was ploughed up for agriculture or planted with non-native conifer species for forestry.
Frampton Marsh is a nature reserve in Lincolnshire, England.The reserve is situated on the coast of The Wash, 4 miles from the town of Boston, between the outfalls of the Rivers Welland and Witham (covering an area of mature salt marsh known as The Scalp), and near the village of Frampton in a area known as the “Fosdyke Wash”.
The Lemons led the RSPB for more than three decades, although Etta's conservatism, authoritarian management and opposition to scientific ornithology increasingly led to clashes with the organisation's committee. She was pressured to resign from her leadership role in 1938, aged 79.
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 .