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"Tripling Britain’s temperate rainforest is the goal of a new charity founded
by a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who found solace in this unique and
biodiverse habitat.
The Thousand Year Trust is being launched this week by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison,
who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after three tours of
Afghanistan and is now transforming his 120-hectare (300 acre) hill farm on
Bodmin Moor into the largest rainforest restoration project in England and
Wales.
The charity is working with local farmers, landowners and charities to identify
land suitable to triple Cornwall’s estimated 1,200-1,600 hectares of surviving
temperate rainforest, with the ultimate aim of tripling Britain’s surviving
rainforest to 1m acres over the next 30 years.
“We’ve all grown up thinking of rainforests as tropical rainforests and that’s
how I grew up, not realising there was a rainforest on my doorstep – a
temperate rainforest, the most stunning habitat we have in the UK,” said
Hanbury-Tenison, who is transforming his family farm with agroforestry, natural
regeneration, planting 100,000 trees and farming free-ranging Highland cattle,
Cornish black pigs and the local ponies.
The profile of temperate rainforest has soared in recent months after the
success of Guy Shrubsole’s
The Lost Rainforests of Britain, a Sunday Times
bestseller, with David Attenborough also highlighting the unique importance of
such habitat on his popular
Wild Isles BBC TV series.
Temperate rainforests are particularly effective at sequestering carbon because
of the density of growth and the carbon held in the canopy by epiphytes.
Shrubsole, who is a trustee of the Thousand Year Trust, said: “For too long, we
had forgotten we even possessed this habitat – but now there is growing
recognition of its wonders, and it seems to have really caught the public
imagination. As people become re-enchanted with the magic of our rainforests, I
hope more farmers, landowners and politicians will step up to help protect and
regenerate them.”"
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