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Today, the remaining fragments of Celtic rainforest are protected for conservation and research. [4] Since the 20th century, conservation efforts have resulted in the protection and management of many of these woodlands, to address problems such as invasive Rhododendron, excessive grazing from sheep and deer, and non-native plantation trees. [10]
In 2015, the Woodland Trust bought Ceunant Llennyrch, a 220-hectare (550-acre) Celtic rainforest in Snowdonia. [13] In 2018, £8.5 million from the European Union and the Welsh Government were provided to support the areas of rainforest in Snowdonia, Cwm Einion, Cwm Doethie and the Elan Valley. [14] [15] [16]
The principal plant communities of the Celtic broadleaf forests include: [1] lowland to submontane acidophilous oak forests, mixed oak forests, principally of English oak (Quercus robur) and sessile oak (Quercus petraea). mixed oak-ash forests. Plant communities with smaller areas include: western boreal and nemoral-montane birch forests,
The Celtic broadleaf forests occupy most of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, including the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom countries of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Celtic broadleaf forests; Celtic rainforest; English Lowlands beech forests; North Atlantic moist mixed forests; Temperate coniferous forests. Caledonian conifer forests;
The largest tropical rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest covers much of northwestern Brazil and stretches into other South American countries. The 2,300,000-square-mile wonderland of biodiversity is ...
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 ...
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