Slapton Ley

[4] The Slapton Ley nature reserve is owned by the Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust and managed by the Field Studies Council.

[8][9] Slapton Ley is the only UK site for strapwort (Corrigiola litoralis), a plant identified by Natural England as being at high risk of going extinct by 2020.

[10] Seed taken from the site, and grown at Paignton Zoo were successfully replanted at Loe Pool, Cornwall in May 2015; where it had previously been recorded since 1915.

[11][12][13] Slapton Ley is remarkable for the very large number of fungi recorded there, with around 3000 species,[14] including 21 new to science, observed there up to 1996 as a result of study over many years by multiple specialists.

[14] This proportion, initially derived from Slapton Ley data, has been part of the evidence used to estimate the overall number of fungal species globally.