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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.
A portion of the temperate rain forest region of North America, the largest area of temperate zone rainforests on the planet, is the Pacific temperate rain forests ecoregion, which occur on west-facing coastal mountains along the Pacific coast of North America, from Kodiak Island in Alaska to northern California, and are part of the Nearctic realm.
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 rivers and lakes which have avoided clearance and intensive grazing pressure.
Caucasus-Anatolian-Hyrcanian temperate forests: PA0409 Celtic broadleaf forests: Ireland and United Kingdom Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: PA0412 Central European mixed forests: Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest: PA0416
This is a list of countries and territories of the world according to the total area covered by forests, based on data published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2010, the world had 3.92 billion hectares (ha) of tree cover, extending over 30% of its land area.
View of the temperate rain forest in Mount Revelstoke National Park, British Columbia, Canada. Butler, R. A. (2005) A Place Out of Time: Tropical Rainforests and the Perils They Face. Published online: Rainforests.mongabay.com; Richards, P. W. (1996). The tropical rain forest. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-42194-2
coniferous temperate rainforest: British Columbia: Clayoquot Sound: 265,000 hectares (650,000 acres) Central Pacific coastal forests: coniferous temperate rainforest: British Columbia: Great Bear Rainforest: 16,000 square kilometres (4,000,000 acres) British Columbia mainland coastal forests: coniferous temperate rainforest: Nova Scotia: North ...
The Caledonian Forest is the name given to the former (ancient old-growth) temperate rainforest of Scotland. The Scots pines of the Caledonian Forest are directly descended from the first pines to arrive in Scotland following the Late Glacial; arriving about 7000 BC. The forest reached its maximum extent about 5000 BC, after which the Scottish ...