BRITAIN’S TEMPERATE RAINFORESTS: CAN WE PROTECT THEM?

cross western Britain and Ireland, you can find patches of damp and misty woodland draped in a cover of green lichens, mosses and liverworts. Increasingly referred to as temperate rainforests, these unique ecosystems harbour the largest concentration of oceanic lichens and mosses in Europe, including some found nowhere else on Earth. Now at a fraction of their previous coverage, many are asking whether Britain should be doing more to protect and expand the areas it has left. In fact, earlier this year, a campaign was launched urging the