Development of The Reserve
On 1 May 1899, the National Trust purchased two acres (8094 m²) for £10. The National Trust has been purchasing land as it becomes available for over a century. In 1951 247.2 hectares (611 acres) of the fen was designated a Site of Special Scientific Importance. It was listed as a 'Nature Conservation Review' site in 1977, and is designated a National Nature Reserve and a Ramsar Wetland of International Significance. As of 2011 the National Trust reserve is over 930 hectares (2,300 acres).
Read more about this topic: Wicken Fen
Famous quotes containing the words development of, development and/or reserve:
“I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women ... [they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not “need” the power to limit the development of others.”
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)
“Mutual repect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one’s own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)