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The Mens is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Billingshurst in West Sussex. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I (1977). 9780521214032, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521214032 and a Special Area of Conservation. An area of south of the A272 road is managed as a nature reserve by the Sussex Wildlife Trust.
This large area of woodland has diverse breeding birds and rich lichen and fungal floras. There are many rare beetles and a fly which is endangered with extinction, Chelostoma curvinervis. All three British species of woodpecker breed on the site, together with other woodland species such as , woodcocks and .
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