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5.
Pengwern Common, near Llethrid, in early May. A key habitat rich in invertebrates, such as marsh fritillary,
green and purple hairstreak butterflies, dotted beefly and beechafer. (Harold Grenfell)
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The lapwing
Vanellus vanellus
and curlew
Numenius arquata
may have gone from the Downs, but
GowerstillhasagreaterdensityofconservationdesignationsthanalmostanywhereelseinBritain.There
are three National Nature Reserves, three Local Nature Reserves, five Special Areas of Conservation
and over twenty-five Sites of Special Scientific Interest. There are also nineteen Geological Conservation
Review Sites, of national and international importance to earth science, on the coast alone. It is difficult
to find a part of the peninsula that does not carry at least one designation.
