Nearly 50 of Britain's special wildlife sites were hit in the "devastating" recent flooding, according to a new assessment.
Initial surveys have revealed how storms and surges breached embankments and wrecked pumping machinery.
Otters and seal pups were among the animals caught by the inundations and there are long-term fears for the loss of coastal habitats.
Alastair Driver, head of biodiversity of the Environment Agency, told the BBC that the scale of the damage was "potentially very serious".
"This is worse than anything we've ever seen before. This impact of this tidal surge was the highest ever recorded in many parts and the impact to these wildlife sites is in many cases devastating."
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