National Nature Reserves in Scotland are established by Scottish Natural Heritage.
Until 2004 there were 73 National Nature Reserves in Scotland, as per the list below. However, a review carried out in that year resulted in a significant number of sites losing their NNR status.
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“The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“You are by nature much better at advising others than yourself. I draw my proof from deeds not words.”
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And they were a’ clad out in green;
Tho the King of Scotland had been there
The warst o’ them might hae been his Queen.
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Till we cam to yon bonny ha’
Whare the roof was o’ the beaten gold
And the floor was o’ the cristal a’.”
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