Newport Wetlands Reserve
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Newport Wetlands Reserve is a wildlife reserve between Uskmouth and Nash, in the south-east of the city of Newport. The reserve was first established in 2000 to mitigate losses of habitat when the Cardiff Bay Barrage scheme was undertaken. The site is owned and managed by the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW). A new visitors and education centre was opened at the site in March 2008 by the RSPB with help from Newport City Council and water level management assistance by Caldicot and Wentlooge Levels Internal Drainage Board[1]. The reserve covers 1,079 acres (437 hectares) of the Caldicot Level, a low lying area of land bordering the northern shore of the Severn Estuary. The site itself is a reclaimed fuel ash disposal site.
The reserve made a National Nature Reserve on 16th April 2008[2].
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- Gallery of pictures of Newport Wetlands
- Newport City Council - Newport Wetlands
- BBC News - £3m visitors' centre for wetlands
- BBC - Newport Wetlands
- RSPB - Newport Wetlands
- Caldicot & Wentlooge Level Internal Drainage Board
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