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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 .
Temperate rainforests currently cover just 1% of Britain, the charity said [Devon Wildlife Trust] The charity said more than a 100 local people planted species including oak, rowan, alder, hazel ...
The Woodland Trust has revealed some of the weird and wonderful species that live in this country’s rare temperate rainforest habitat. Britain’s rainforests home to wildlife from giant slugs ...
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.
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.
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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.
The British rainforest garden from the Wildlife Trusts aims to raise awareness of threatened and largely lost wet woodland habitat.