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nature reserve
(redirected from Ecological preserve)

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nature reserve
an area of land that is protected and managed in order to preserve a particular type of habitat and its flora and fauna which are often rare or endangered


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While on a trip to Fiji in September 2002, James allegedly trapped three young iguanas from an ecological preserve and brought them back to the United States in a compartment he made in a prosthetic leg he uses, Mrozek said.
Environmentalists, business leaders and state and local officials in New Jersey are working together to turn Hackensack Meadowlands from a polluted eyesore into ecological preserve covering 8,400 acres of protected wetlands, wildlife refuges, hiking trails, playing fields and even a golf course or two.
The center is on sixty-nine acres of tidal estuary within an ecological preserve located on Florida's east coast in the historic and arts-oriented town of
 
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