Loch Druidibeg on South Uist is a National Nature Reserve owned and managed by Scottish Natural Heritage.

Loch Druidibeg in the north of the island is a National Nature Reserve owned and managed by Scottish Natural Heritage.

The world's first bumblebee sanctuary was established at Vane Farm in the Loch Leven National Nature Reserve in Scotland in 2008.

Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature with Jerome Clark ( NY: Simon and Schuster, 1999, ISBN 0-684-85602-6 ).

Loch Leven is a National Nature Reserve, as well as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Protection Area.

In the 2009-10 series of the BBC's Natural World, episode 6, Highland Haven, stayed closer to home than usual, with a year-long look at the environment and wildlife of the UK's oldest National Nature Reserve, Beinn Eighe, along the southern shores of Loch Maree.

Also within the National Nature Reserve, a moderate route ascends to the ' Conservation Cairn ' at which offers extensive views of the surrounding landscape including Loch Maree and the nearby mountain Slioch.

The Loch of Spiggie is an RSPB Nature reserve.

In seven movements for large orchestra ( including quadruple woodwind, a quartet of saxophones, 6 horns, 5 trumpets, harpsichord, two mandolins, two harps, organ, as well as a tenor soloist, a boys ' two-part choir and a double mixed chorus ), and lasting 75 minutes, this work clearly betrays the influence of Mahler. The inspirational origin of the work lay, however, in the simple act of walking along a very rocky and boulder-strewn shore at Loch Kishorn during his stay there in 1964, and observing the dense texture of rocks and vegetation which translated itself into a similar musical texture forming part of the first movement entitled " Vision of Nature ".

The area between Boat of Garten and Loch Garten is within the Abernethy Forest National Nature Reserve, Boat of Garten being on the forest fringe.

Centred around Loch Fleet, three miles south of Golspie, is a National Nature Reserve with wading dirds, wildfowl and seals basking on the sandbanks.

Powell contains mostly upscale and luxury neighborhoods, including Wedgewood Country Club, The Retreat, The Chase, Golf Village, Scioto Reserve, River Bend, Loch Lomand, Chambers Glenn, Woodlands Place, Canterbury Estates, The Lakes of Silverleaf, Campden Lakes, Ashmoore, Woods on Seldom Seen and Sherbourne Mews.

Live video and still pictures of the nest can be viewed on the RSPB Loch Garten Reserve web-site.

* SWT Reserve: Bawsinch and Duddingston Loch

Tidbinbilla is a locality to the south-west of Canberra that features the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, operated by the United States ' National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) as part of its Deep Space Network.

* Corrie Fee, National Nature Reserve

* Montrose Basin Nature Reserve

This town borders the Nature Reserve Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros.

The Bodmin Beacon Local Nature Reserve is the hill overlooking the town.

The line closed in the 1960s, when it became part of the Cheddar Valley Railway Nature Reserve.

The line closed in the 1960s, when it became part of the Cheddar Valley Railway Nature Reserve, and part of the National Cycle Network route 26.

Habitat is also preserved in the large Aboriginal local government area of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara in South Australia and in the Great Victoria Desert Nature Reserve of Western Australia.

A Marine Nature Reserve was designated in Ramsey Bay in Oct 2011.

A number of noteworthy coastal areas abut the Kattegat, including the Kullaberg Nature Reserve in Scania, Sweden, which contains a number of rare species and a scenic rocky shore, the town of Mölle, which has a picturesque harbour and views into the Kullaberg, and Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark.

The entire island has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and it was England's first statutory Marine Nature Reserve, and the first Marine Conservation Zone, because of its unique flora and fauna.

Large parts of the island, and all of the adjacent intertidal area, are protected as Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve to help safeguard the internationally important wintering bird populations.

Early experiments were inconclusive, but with the creation of a moose farm at Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve in 1949 a small-scale moose domestication program was started, involving attempts at selective breeding of animals based on their behavioural characteristics.

Only one area of conservation is recorded in the Sahara: the Zellaf Nature Reserve in Libya.

Continuously forested since the end of the Ice Age, Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve today encompasses 423 hectares, ( 1, 045 acres ) surrounding the village of Edwinstowe, the site of Thoresby Hall.

In 2002, a portion of Sherwood Forest was designated a National Nature Reserve by English Nature.

In 2007, Natural England officially incorporated the Budby South Forest, Nottinghamshire's largest area of dry lowland heath, into the Nature Reserve, nearly doubling its size from.

* Scottish Natural Heritage ( 2008 ) The Story of Hermaness National Nature Reserve.

An area of the Lizard coverning is designated a National Nature Reserve because of its coastal grasslands and heaths and inland heaths.

* Edgbaston Hall Nature Reserve

Black wildebeest at Kliprivier Nature Reserve, Johannesburg

** Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), in the Białowieża Forest Nature Reserve in Belarus.

There are plans to re-introduce two herds in Germany and in Oostvaardersplassen Nature Reserve in Flevoland ( Netherlands ), and in 2007 a bison pilot project in a fenced area was begun in Kraansvlak.