Nature Reserves

Local Nature Reserves

‘Nature for All’ is a Swindon Services Ranger Team initiative to designate suitable areas as Local Nature Reserves (LNR), protect and enhance the fauna and flora within these sites and encourage community involvement for pleasure and study purposes.

‘Nature for All’ was launched in September 2003. Since then the project has added Barbury Castle and Stanton Park to the Swindon’s other LNR’s those being Coate Water and Seven Fields. We have recently declared a fifth L.N.R site at Radnor Street Cemetery, Old Town.

Local Nature Reserves (LNRs) are areas of land managed for their high conservation value and environmental contribution towards the community. There are currently over 1,000 LNRs across the UK that collectively contributes to the conservation of the diversity of our country.

As a means of encouraging community involvement in Swindon’s LNR’s, Nature for All actively encourages their Volunteer Rangers and ‘Friends of’ groups to join in with conservation tasks, promotion and events. At present two of our reserves are supported by local groups those being Seven Fields Conservation Group and Friends of Stanton.

In September 2004, ‘Nature for All’, also launched their ‘Passport to Nature’ scheme, encouraging young people up to the age of 16 to get out and about within their local environment to discover more about their natural world.

We now offer a comprehensive environmental education programme for schools, colleges and youth groups. The outdoor actvities are designed to be run in either our Country Parks or Local Nature Reserves or in a suitable area near to your group.

For more information on Nature for All events please click on the link below

Rangers Events

Passport to Nature pages

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