How We're Bringing Back Scotland's Lost Rainforest

We’ve decided to cut down 100s of trees to save a very special habitat... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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💪 OUR PARTNERS IN THIS VIDEO
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ARKAIG Community Forest: https://arkaig.org/

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⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
00:00 Intro
1:10 Our Project Area
2:40 The Skipinnish Oak
4:15 Why we are cutting down a forest
6:02 A Temperate Rainforest
8:06 Mapping the site


🔎 ABOUT THIS PROJECT
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Scotland possesses some of the richest examples in Europe of a rare biome - temperate rainforest. Despite this, there are only thought to be around 30,000 hectares of woodland that have rainforest biodiversity left within the rainforest zone, an area that stretches along the west coast and is characterised by its wet climate. The zone currently holds approximately 93,000 hectares of semi-natural woodland that could potentially harbour this diversity. Ancient or old growth woodlands are the best places to start protecting, expanding and managing this declining habitat.

Find out more about this project here: https://www.mossy.earth/projects/temp...

Photographs of Simon and Tarzan taken by Liam (ACF) and John Macpherson / WTML.