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The protection of fossils - comments on the Holzmaden model

1986; Volume: 4; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.55468/gc792

0144-5294

William A.P. Wimbledon,

Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation

To most people concerned with conservation in Great Britain the idea of a geological monument is perhaps foreign. Such categories are a familiar feature overseas, and they were included in the original Nature Reserves Investigation Committee site list for England and Wales (1945). Since then/monuments* have played no part in British earth science conservation for they were displaced by early legislation (National Parks and Access to Countryside Act 1949), which established the existing dual system of Sites of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserves.