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The Rainforest Restoration Project aims to increase the quality and resilience of temperate rainforestsacross the northwest and southwest of England, including Cumbria.
The Rainforest Restoration Project is a collaboration to protect one of the rarest and most amazing habitats on Earth – the temperate rainforest!
We have joined forces with a number of organisations and conservation charities with the shared goal of improving the quality and resilience of our amazing rainforests.
Across the northwest and southwest of England, including Cumbria, we will be working on the ground to restore this incredible habitat.
We want to shout from the treetops about these incredible habitats to raise awareness. Many people don’t know we have temperate rainforests in the UK, what they look like, or why it’s so vital that we protect them.
Our aim is to inspire people to love and care for the rainforest – through outreach, training events and sharing practical advice on woodland management.
And of course we’ll be getting hands on too! Some of our planned work includes:
In Britain, temperate rainforest is only found in areas of western Scotland, Cumbria, Wales and southwest England, where suitable climatic conditions prevail and ancient woodland and trees have survived.
The high annual rainfall and low annual temperate variation in these areas provides ideal conditions for lichens, bryophytes (mosses and liverworts), and ferns to flourish. The nature of the rainforest changes significantly with variations in this climate and with human influence on the landscape.
Our rainforests are home to some intriguing and rare species of lichens, ferns and lower plants like mosses or liverworts, that cannot survive anywhere else. Some of these pre-date humans, flowers, trees and even dinosaurs!
Once covering up to 20% of the UK, temperate rainforest is now confined to less than 1%, due to a number of threats including:
We need to work now, to protect these amazing habitats.
The #Species Survival Fund Rainforest Restoration Project is being led by the Woodland Trust in partnership with Plantlife and other organisations including Cumbria Woodlands, Cumbria Connect, Rusland LSG and Cumbria Wildlife Trust.
This project is funded by the Government’s Species Survival Fund. The fund was developed by Defra and its Arm’s-Length Bodies. It is being delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Natural England and the Environment Agency.
From our work deep in the forests of the Caledonian Pine woods to the wild north coast – species are at the very heart of what we do.
Discover how Wales’ flagship green recovery project Natur am Byth! is helping to unravel the mystery of a vanishing lichen.
Discover how Plantlife is working with governments to protect and restore temperate rainforest along the Atlantic coast of Britain.
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