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The Caledonian Forest is the ancient temperate forest of Scotland. The forest today is a reduced-extent version of the pre-human-settlement forest, existing in several dozen remnant areas . 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 .
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.
The trust said in decades to come the new trees would form a temperate rainforest with high rainfall and humidity. Helen Aldis from Moor Trees, which supplied some of the saplings, said many had ...
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 ...
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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.
In 2023, the Wildlife Trusts announced a project to restore and expand the rainforests across the British Isles, following a donation of £38 million from Aviva. The project will focus on Bryn Ifan in Gwynedd (under the North Wales Wildlife Trust ), as well as Creg y Cowin on the Isle of Man .