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CEO NATIONAL TRUST FOR JERSEY
N May 2015 the Crown kindly agreed to gift the foreshore and seabed to the people of Jersey. Overnight we all became stakeholders in an amazing marine environment amounting to 772 square miles, which is 17 times greater than our territorial land mass. Jersey’s location at the confluence of the cold and warm temperature marine biogeographical region together with the warming influence of the Gulf Stream results in a habitat which can harbour and sustain both animals and plants normally associated with either the warmer waters of southern Europe or colder British waters. As a result we have an incredibly rich environment and our south-east coast has been designated a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.
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