Imagine our British Isles in a thousand years’ time. Long after not only you have passed on, but your children, your grandchildren and even your great great great grandchildren. What will our islands look like?

Several thousand years ago up to 20% of the UK mainland would have been blanketed in the richest ecosystem that our isles have ever grown; Atlantic temperate rainforest.

In the UK we have only 14% tree cover, compared to the European average of 33%, and since the 1970s as much as 41% of our native species have fallen into terminal decline.

Of all of the many types of natural habitat and woodland that we have in the UK these rainforests are one of our greatest environments for:

- sequestering carbon dioxide

- restoring ecosystem services

- providing mental health and wellbeing benefits to those who spend time in them

At a time of climate crisis and ecosystem collapse the moorland areas in the southwest of the UK have become one of our most nature depleted environments. There is now a moment of opportunity to reverse the destruction and restore one of our greatest carbon sequestering habitats.