A Nature Conservation Review: The Selection of Biological Sites of National Importance to Nature Conservation in Britain

by Derek Ratcliffe (Editor)

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350 pages, Hardcover

First published July 21, 1977

About the author

Derek Almey Ratcliffe was one of the most significant English nature conservationists of the 20th century. He was Chief Scientist for the Nature Conservancy Council at the Monks Wood Experimental Station, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, retiring in 1989. Ratcliffe was the author of the 1977 Nature Conservation Review, a document which set out the most important sites for nature conservation in the United Kingdom. He also published various works on nature and conservation.