Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes
Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes is a 1,790.1-hectare (4,423-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches between Deal and Sandwich in Kent.[1][2] It includes two Geological Conservation Review sites,[3][4] and most of it is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I.[5] Part of it is a Ramsar site,[6] a Special Area of Conservation,[7][8] a Special Protection Area[9] and a National Nature Reserve,[10][11] It also includes a Kent Wildlife Trust nature reserve[12] and a Local Nature Reserve,[13] This site has over 30 plant species and 168 invertebrates which are nationally rare and nationally scarce, and several wintering birds are present in nationally important numbers. It is also a geologically important site, with diverse fish fossils dating to the Thanetian around 57 million years ago.[14] References
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