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The Lost Rainforests of Britain is a non-fiction book by British author and environmental campaigner Guy Shrubsole. The book explores the existence and ecological importance of temperate rainforests in Britain, sometimes referred to as Celtic rainforests, which are often overlooked or forgotten. Shrubsole aims to raise awareness about these ...
In 2022, the "Lost Rainforests of Britain" campaign launched an online map, using an "index of hygrothermy" showing the estimated historic/potential location of these rainforests in Great Britain. It estimated that up to 20% of Great Britain could have been suitable for these rainforests, with almost half of Wales fitting the criteria.
Shrubsole's Lost Rainforests of Britain campaign attempts to find, map, photograph, and restore the Atlantic Oakwood forests, woodlands variously referred to in Britain as Upland Oakwoods, Atlantic Oakwoods, Western Oakwoods, Temperate Rainforest, and Caledonian Forest, and colloquially as "Celtic Rainforests". [10]
Britain’s rare rainforests are home to wildlife from eagles to the world’s largest slugs and lichen which looks like dragon skin, say conservationists battling to save them. The Woodland Trust ...
Following the last glacial period, trees began to recolonise what is now the British Isles over a land bridge which is now beneath the Strait of Dover.Forests of this type were found all over what is now the island of Great Britain for a few thousand years, before the climate began to slowly warm in the Atlantic period, and the temperate coniferous forests began retreating north into the ...
These woodlands are also variously referred to as Atlantic rainforest, Upland Oakwoods, Atlantic Oakwoods or Western Oakwoods. Today, the Celtic Rainforest exists as small fragments of the temperate rainforest that once covered much of Ireland and the west coast of Great Britain. The majority of these fragments occur on steep-sided slopes above ...
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This is a list of some of the forests in the United Kingdom. Care should be taken to distinguish extensive wooded areas from royal forests which may never have been particularly wooded within historical times.