First new National Nature Reserve opened on the Lincolnshire coast

Natural England has launched a new National Nature Reserve on the Lincolnshire coast which marks the first in the new King Charles Series National Nature Reserves  to celebrate his coronation.

The Lincolnshire Coronation Coast National Nature Reserve (LCCNNR) covers 33 square kilometres along almost 30 kilometres of the Lincolnshire coast containing a rich variety of sand dunes, salt marshes, mudflats and freshwater marshes which are of international importance.

The LCCNNR brings together the existing Donna Nook (famous for its large colony of breeding Grey seals which start to arrive later this month) and Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserves, adding a further 2350 hectares of land managed for nature conservation, supporting many breeding and over-wintering birds, natterjack toads, special plants and insects. The new site is now two thirds larger, making it the ninth largest National Nature Reserve of the 220 in England.

National Nature Reserve status is given to the very best nature conservation sites in England and is recognition that the land is nationally important and will be managed in perpetuity for its wildlife and geology.