Britain’s secret rainforests — and how to spot them: We associate them with the jungles of the Tropics, but rainforests used to cover our own wet island. Today only a few hidden groves remain — and one man is on a mission to save them
Britain’s secret rainforests — and how to spot them: We associate them with the jungles of the Tropics, but rainforests used to cover our own wet island. Today only a few hidden groves remain — and one man is on a mission to save them
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*Ben Spencer, Saturday October 29 2022, The Sunday Times*
It’s sad that we have so little woodland left. Just square field after square field.
Temperate rain forests also still exist in the U.S. at Olympia National Park, and on some small areas on the Atlantic coast of Norway.
I wandered into one of these on a walk, just thinking we were going to walk through some woods. They’re pretty incredible places, felt very different to a normal forest.
Wistmans wood in Dartmoor is one of them. I went to visit it a few years ago. Spooky as hell and almost impenetrable.