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The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,125-acre (37 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge made up of several parcels of land along 50 miles (80 km) of Maine's southern coast. Created in 1966, it is named for environmentalist and author Rachel Carson , whose book Silent Spring raised public awareness of the effects of DDT on migratory ...
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.
Bee Lick Creek in the Jefferson Memorial Forest, a National Audubon Society wildlife refuge. A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed ...
A record number of whooper swans have been recorded at a Lincolnshire wildlife reserve. The RSPB Frampton Marsh site near Boston saw 1,440 of the birds last week, compared with the usual figure of ...
6,000 acres (24 km²) of protected wetlands, aquarium, wildlife art and carvings, bird observation tower Whittemore Wildlife Sanctuary: Oldwick: Hunterdon: Skylands Region: website, 180 acres, features the Roving Nature Center and 11 miles of trails for hiking, dog walking and horseback riding Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge: Medford: Burlington
Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge The Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a 12-mile-long (19 km) river wetlands conservation area, in two major parcels, stretching from the towns of Billerica, Massachusetts (downstream) to Wayland, Massachusetts (upstream), along the Concord River and Sudbury River .
Pitsford Water or Pitsford Reservoir is a 413 hectare reservoir and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Brixworth in Northamptonshire. [1] [2] It is owned by Anglian Water, which manages it as a water park for walking, cycling, fishing, sailing and birdwatching. [3]
The John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum is a 1000-acre (4.05 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia and Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania. Adjacent to Philadelphia International Airport , the refuge protects the largest remaining freshwater tidal marsh in Pennsylvania.