🦎 Ouse Washes

United Kingdom · Europe · Nature Reserve · 52.53°N, 0.27°E

Ouse Washes is a linear 2,513.6-hectare (6,211-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest stretching from near St Ives in Cambridgeshire to Downham Market in Norfolk, England. It is also a Ramsar internationally important wetland site, a Special Protection Area for birds, a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. An area of 186 hectares between March and Ely is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire and another area near Chatteris is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust manages another area near Welney.

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Quick facts

Country	United Kingdom
Continent / region	Europe
Protection type	🦎 Nature Reserve
Coordinates (approx.)	52.53°N, 0.27°E · view on map

Ouse Washes is a nature reserve in United Kingdom, in Europe. The details of why Ouse Washes is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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