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They are found on Scotland’s west coast, in the ‘hyper-oceanic’ zone, where cool summers, mild winters, wet conditions and clean air provide ideal conditions for some of the world’s rarest mosses, liverworts, lichens, fungi and ferns.
Argyll is home to more than half of all Scotland s temperate rainforest
Argyll is home to more than half of the remaining rainforest habitat in Scotland.
One woodland in the region supports a quarter of all mosses and liverworts found in the UK, with as many as 200 species inhabiting a single ravine near Knapdale.
But these rainforests are at risk, with forests under increasing threat from invasive alien species, fragmentation and poor management.