nature preserve
noun
US
: an area where animals and plants are protected and that has few buildings or homes
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Instead, Hay said, the eagle was corralled into the nature preserve across the street.
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Jason Dill, Miami Herald, 7 May 2025
Biologists trudged through the grassy nature preserve carrying cloth bags that contained fearsome-seeming cargo: 42 snake-eating apex predators, bred in Lake County.
—Olivia Lloyd, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2025
El Charco del Ingenio: Botanical Escape Just outside the city center lies El Charco del Ingenio, a sprawling botanical garden and nature preserve set around a canyon.
—Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2025
Perhaps the best solution is to open up the Moon to commercial exploitation but maintain the far side as a sort of out-world nature preserve, owned by no company or nation, left to scientists to study and use as a platform for pristine observations of all kinds.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
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Jason Dill, Miami Herald, 7 May 2025
Biologists trudged through the grassy nature preserve carrying cloth bags that contained fearsome-seeming cargo: 42 snake-eating apex predators, bred in Lake County.
—Olivia Lloyd, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2025
El Charco del Ingenio: Botanical Escape Just outside the city center lies El Charco del Ingenio, a sprawling botanical garden and nature preserve set around a canyon.
—Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2025
Perhaps the best solution is to open up the Moon to commercial exploitation but maintain the far side as a sort of out-world nature preserve, owned by no company or nation, left to scientists to study and use as a platform for pristine observations of all kinds.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Nature preserve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nature%20preserve. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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