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Site of Special Scientific Interest
A
Site of Special Scientific Interest
(
SSSI
) (
Area of Special Scientific Interest
or
ASSI
in Northern Ireland) is a
conservation designation
denoting a
protected area
in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based
nature conservation
legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon them, including
national nature reserve
s,
Ramsar site
s,
Special Protection Areas
, and
Special Areas of Conservation
. The
acronym
"SSSI" is often pronounced "triple-S I".
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