Once found all along Europe’s Atlantic coast the temperate rainforest has dwindled over thousands of years. And the west coast of Scotland is one of the last strongholds of this spectacular habitat with its array of lichens, fungi, mosses and ferns – some found nowhere else in the world. But Scotland’s rainforest is in trouble. As little as 75,000 acres remain – a mere 2% of Scotland’s woodland cover. Now a cash crisis has emerged in a bid to make the first wave of new steps to save the ancient forest in Scotland which is being lost to overgrazing by deer and livestock, invasive plant species and disease.