The other types of protected areas in Costa Rica are National Wildlife Refuges, Biological Reserves, Protection Zones, and Absolute Nature Reserves.

Category: National Nature Reserves in England

As of 2011, areas protected by the state included five Strict Nature Reserves ( Réserves Naturelles Intégrales ), 21 Wildlife Reserves ( Réserves Spéciales ) and 21 National Parks ( Parcs Nationaux ).

Shetland has three National Nature Reserves, at the seabird colonies of Hermaness and Noss, and at Keen of Hamar to preserve the serpentine flora.

Category: National Nature Reserves in Wales

* Thackway, R and I D Cresswell ( 1995 ) An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia: a framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program Version 4. 0 Canberra: Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Reserve Systems Unit, 1995.

The four categories of designated site in effect in County Kilkenny are Special Areas of Conservation, Natural Heritage Areas, Statutory Nature Reserves and Wildfowl Sanctuaries.

There are over 750 km² of Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) in the area, as well as National Nature Reserves at Caerlaverock and in Cumbria.

Local Nature Reserves and a number of conservation areas can also be found in the borough.

Barnet describes its 16 main open spaces as ' premier parks ', nine of which achieved a Green Flag Award for 2008 / 9: The borough has sixty-seven Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation, eight Local Nature Reserves, and it is jointly responsible with the London Borough of Brent for the Welsh Harp ( Brent ) Reservoir, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Category: Local Nature Reserves in England

* Norfolk Roadside Nature Reserves

** Nature Reserves across the county's road verges, on 67 sites ( October 2007 ).

SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature / geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon them, including National Nature Reserves, Ramsar Sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation.

* Sketchmap interactive map of designations in Great Britain, including SSSI boundaries ( select ' Nature Reserves ' in UK Map Layers ).

There are two National Nature Reserves within the parish ; the Ludham-Potter Heigham NNR is to the west of the village whilst the Heigham Holmes NNR is to the east.

Today's Wildlife Trust movement began life as The Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves ( SPNR ), which was formed by Charles Rothschild in 1912.

Encouraged by the growing number of Trusts, the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves ( SPNR ) began in 1957 to discuss the possibility of forming a national federation of Naturalists ' Trusts.

By 1964, the number of Trusts had increased to 36 and the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves had changed its name to the Society for the Promotion of Nature Conservation.

Category: National Nature Reserves in England

Nature Reserves are managed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, an agency of the Department of Environment and Climate Change of New South Wales.

Cooper Island in this atoll is owned by The Nature Conservancy, and it is managed as a nature reserve.

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

The Brue Valley Living Landscape is a conservation project managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust and nearby is the Ham Wall National Nature Reserve.

The Ham Wall National Nature Reserve, west of Glastonbury, is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

It is administered by the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and the Canadian Wildlife Service, and is managed in conjunction with Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

About southwest of Attica along the Wabash River lies Portland Arch Nature Preserve and the Miller-Campbell Memorial Tract, a preserve managed by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

National Nature Reserves in Norfolk, England are established by Natural England and managed by them or by non-governmental organisations such as the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds or the National Trust.

Open space includes Chafford Gorges Nature Park, Langdon Hills Country Park and Grove House Wood, managed by Essex Wildlife Trust.

A number of former pits have been used to form the Chafford Gorges Nature Reserve, managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

National Nature Reserves in Derbyshire, England, are established by English Nature and managed by them or by non-governmental organisations such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds or the National Trust.

National Nature Reserves in Lancashire in England are established by English Nature and managed by them or by non-governmental organisations such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds or the National Trust.

National Nature Reserves in Suffolk, England are established by Natural England and managed by them or by non-governmental organisations such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the National Trust or the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.

It is managed and protected as a national park under the Nature Conservation Act 1992.

National Nature Reserves in Bedfordshire, England are established by Natural England and managed by them or by non-governmental organisations such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds or the National Trust.

Mid-Yare NNR is a National Nature Reserve in Norfolk, east of Norwich, established by English Nature and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ).

The Musconetcong Gorge Nature Preserve is an undeveloped park managed by the Hunterdon County Parks and Recreational System, with steeply wooded terrain overlooking the Musconetcong River.

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

It is part of the Mid-Yare National Nature Reserve established in 1997 by English Nature ( though managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ).

Arnauld's supporters managed to persuade the Roman Catholic Church to place Nature and Grace on its Index of Prohibited Books in 1690, and it was followed there by the Search nineteen years later.

Street Heath is a Nature reserve, managed by Somerset Wildlife Trust, and has outstanding examples of communities which were once common on the Somerset Levels.