Catalogue description English Nature and predecessors: National Nature Reserve Progress Reports

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Reference: FT 12
Title: English Nature and predecessors: National Nature Reserve Progress Reports
Description:

This series contains reports, maps, graphs and figures relating to individual National Nature Reserves. Reports on management progress were made by wardens and regional officers with occasional input from headquarters technical officers.

Date: 1982-1989
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Nature Conservancy, 1949-1973

Nature Conservancy Council, 1973-1991

Physical description: 6 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2000 English Nature

Administrative / biographical background:

Under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 English Nature (as the successor to the Nature Conservancy) has a statutory function to declare, maintain and manage prime conservation sites as National Nature Reserves. The Act also empowers English Nature to purchase land to become National Nature Reserves as well as leasing land or entering into a nature reserve agreement with the owner or occupier.

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