Believe it or not, there was once a rainforest covering a fifth of Britain (this country does, after all, get ridiculous amounts of wet weather). But we don’t mean the tropical kind you find in Australia or South America — we’re talking about temperate rainforests.

Temperate rainforests are super rare and only occur in places close to the sea with high rainfall, high humidity and low variations in temperature.

In 2024 only small pockets of the UK’s rainforest, known at the Atlantic or Celtic rainforest, remain. But campaigners have been trying to change that and the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales has just announced its plans recover and revive its section of the woodland.