The little-known and bloody history that binds Wales to Glasgow and Edinburgh
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The little-known and gory history that binds Glasgow and Edinburgh to Wales
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Life finds a way: in search of Englandâs lost, forgotten rainforests
Gnarled oak trees in Wistmanâs Wood, an eight-acre fragment of temperate rainforest in Devon. Photograph: Ian Dagnall/Alamy
Much of Britainâs temperate rainforest has been destroyed â but it can sometimes regenerate. The race is on to map what survives and restore what we can
Thu 29 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT
Few people realise that England has fragments of a globally rare habitat: temperate rainforest. I didnât really believe it until I moved to Devon last year and started visiting some of these incredible habitats. Temperate rainforests are exuberant with life. One of their defining characteristics is the presence of epiphytes, plants that grow on other plants, often in such damp and rainy places. In woods around the edge of Dartmoor, in lost valleys and steep-sided gorges, Iâve spotted branches dripping with mosses, festooned with lichens, liverworts and polypody ferns.