Nature Conservancy: General Matters: Registered Files

FT 3

1942-2004

This series contains registered files of the Nature Conservancy which cover a wide range of matters, including advice to the government on conservation issues, declaration and management of National Nature Reserves, identification of Sites of Special Scientific Interest, and the promotion of research into all aspects of conservation. They include files about conservation problems overseas. The files comprise a mixture of correspondence, reports, minutes, agenda and papers of particular working groups, and research data.

The records also reflect work associated with the Deer (England and Wales) Act 1963, the Animals (Restrictions of Importation) Act 1964 and the Commons Registration Act 1965.

Pieces 855-878 will be transferred at a later date.

N file series

Public Record(s)

English

• English Nature, 1991-2006
• Nature Conservancy, 1949-1973
• Nature Conservancy Council, 1973-1991

854 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 1992 English Nature

Topics

Common land

This series is accruing.

The Nature Conservancy Council was a government agency responsible for designating and managing National Nature Reserves and other nature conservation areas in Great Britain between 1973 and 1991. Nature Conservancy's main committee and sub-committees and major working groups include the Nature Conservancy; Scottish Committee; England and Wales Committee; Scientific Policy Committee; Advisory Committee for England; Advisory Committee for Wales; Conservation Group; and others. In 1991, following the passage of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Natural Heritage (Scotland) Act 1991, the Nature Conservancy Council was divided into three. The section of the agency covering England became English Nature.