(in the UK) an area officially designated as containing landscapes or wildlife that would be threatened by unrestricted development.
（英国）环境敏感区（由官方划定、内有可能受到无限制开发威胁的风景或野生动物的地区）
Example sentencesExamples
- The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says the establishment of an Environmentally Sensitive Area on the marshes in 1993 has safeguarded wildlife.
- The Environmentally Sensitive Areas scheme introduced in 1987 aims to provide broader habitat protection within designated areas.
- The 36-acre field was already under protection as an Environmentally Sensitive Area and it was difficult for him to keep the grass cut to the designated height.
- As a result every acre on the farm, that supports not only prize-winning Swaledales, but also about 35 suckler cows, is either in an Environmentally Sensitive Area or is managed through Defra's Countryside Stewardship scheme.
- The moor forms part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest and an international Special Protection Area, in addition to being part of the North Peak Environmentally Sensitive Area.