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- The National Trust converted the former Sandilands golf course into a 2 km nature reserve that opened Saturday.
- Volunteers, including 50 locals, planted 35,000 native shrubs.
- Funding came from a £2 million Mablethorpe Towns Fund, £1.5 million National Highways and £200,000 Shared Prosperity Fund.
- Avocets, oystercatchers and little ringed plover chicks nested on the site during summer.
- Highland ponies will be introduced for conservation grazing.