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nature reserveArea set aside to protect a habitat and the wildlife that lives within it, with only restricted admission for the public. A nature reserve often provides a sanctuary for rare species and rare habitats, such as marshland. The world's largest is Etosha Reserve, Namibia; area 99,520 sq km/38,415 sq mi.
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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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