Voluntary Marine Conservation Area (VMCA) is a designation in the United Kingdom for areas of coastline which are of particular wildlife and scientific value that enjoy a level of voluntary protection.
VMCAs are run by a range of organisations and steering groups and are often supported by community or volunteer groups. VMCAs often aim to promote the
Seashore Code as a means for the public to treat the coastline with care.
List of VMCAs
The first VMCA to be set up was in
Lundy
Lundy is an English island in the Bristol Channel. It forms part of the district of Torridge in the county of Devon.
About long and wide, Lundy has had a long and turbulent history, frequently changing hands between the British crown and ...
, 1973.
Helford was designated in 1987.
North Devon was established in 1994, spans the coast from
Combe Martin
Combe Martin () is a village, Civil parishes in England, civil parish and former Manorialism, manor on the North Devon coast about east of Ilfracombe. It is a small seaside resort with a sheltered cove on the northwest edge of the Exmoor Nati ...
to
Croyde and is managed by
Devon Wildlife Trust
The Devon Wildlife Trust is a member of The Wildlife Trusts partnership covering the county of Devon, England. It is a registered charity, established in 1961 as the Devon Naturalists Trust, and its aim is to safeguard the future of the county's ...
; Purbeck; and Wembury (
Wembury Marine Centre).
References
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Organisations based in Dorset