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Lost Rainforests of Britain

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Lost Rainforests of Britain, spearheaded by Guy Shrubsole in 2021, is a campaign calling for the Government to implement a ‘Great British Rainforests Strategy’. This strategy foregrounds ambitious commitment to the restoration and protection of existing UK temperate rainforest and funding for further restoration.

As part of the campaign, Shrubsole has published a book and a website has been launched. The website fosters knowledge sharing and platforms various forest technologies. For example, highlighting GIS maps of bracken that can be used to indicate ghost woodland.

West Coast of UK

Lost Rainforests of Britain public map

As part of the Lost Rainforests of Britain campaign, a public call was sent out to help map lost temperate rainforests across the UK .

Publics sent in hundreds of submissions to map locations where they had identified signs of temperate rainforest . These submissions were accompanied by photos and details. This collaborative public map hosted by Google Maps both demonstrates the high degree of public interest in temperate rainforests as a priority habitats, and confirms and enriches existing data on the extent of surviving rainforest fragments.

Public map of lost rainforests of Britain

Screen grab of Lost Rainforests of Britain public map

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