Mysterious, gnarly, twinkling Atlantic rainforests once cloaked the western parts of Britain, Ireland France and Spain. Nearly every last scrap has gone, cleared and grazed to oblivion by sheep or turned into monocultures of pine or eucalyptus. /1
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In Britain, a growing movement (led by ) is calling for the restoration of our lost rainforests. If we are to lecture other countries on the importance of protecting and restoring theirs, we ought to make a start restoring our own. /2
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In Ireland too, bestselling An Irish Atlantic Rainforest by is helping to bring Ireland’s long-lost rainforests to the attention of a public increasingly yearning for restoration on what is one of the most nature-depleted islands on Earth. /3
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In Spain, an array of rewilding groups including and are mobilising efforts to restore the long-lost rainforests of Galicia and the Iberian north-west, mostly now converted to ugly, lifeless eucalyptus and pine plantations. /4
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The best difference any one of us can make is to give what cash, time and other resources we can spare to whichever campaign or movement most inspires us. Find one and get stuck in! #generationrestoration /End
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Some has sadly gone recently under HS2. Very rare ancient woodland biotypes and genotypes lost forever. Just to save a few commuter minutes. We cannot ever restore what is now extinct. There is always a better solution.
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