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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 .
Thousands of trees have been planted by volunteers as part of a new temperate rainforest in south Devon. More than 2,500 native trees have been planted so far this winter at Devon Wildlife Trust's ...
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 conservation group is supporting eight community-led projects, covering 15% of the rainforest zone, although it needs about 25 of these initiatives to save Scotland’s rainforests.
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 ...
A Celtic rainforest, also known as a temperate or Atlantic rainforest or woodland, [1] is found in areas with "high oceanicity", those that are highly influenced by the sea. These areas are characterised by high rainfall and humidity, but also low yearly variation in temperature.
Wistman's Wood is one of Britain's last remaining ancient temperate rainforests and one of three remote high-altitude oakwoods on Dartmoor in Devon, England. The first written document to mention Wistman's Wood date to the 17th century, while more recent tree-ring studies show that individual trees could be many hundreds of years old.
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