The organisation behind The The Wildlife Trusts’ British Rainforest Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025, explains their mission and aims
“The Wildlife Trusts’ vision is of a thriving natural world with our wildlife and natural habitats playing a valued role in addressing the nature and climate emergencies, and everyone inspired to get involved in nature’s recovery.
See The Wildlife Trusts’ British Rainforest Garden
“In 2023, The Wildlife Trusts started an exciting and ambitious new partnership with Aviva to restore and reconnect the remaining fragments of temperate rainforest across the British Isles. Home to rare wildlife, including birds like pied flycatchers and wood warblers, and important habitats for storing carbon, temperate rainforests cover less than 1% of the UK land area – despite once covering over a fifth*. This programme will go beyond traditional habitat restoration to establish entirely new woodlands, bringing back our once glorious rainforests.
The Temperate Rainforest Restoration Programme is just one example of The Wildlife Trusts’ work to bring wildlife back and empower people to take action for nature.
“As a movement of 46 place-based independent charities covering the UK, Alderney and Isle of Man, we have been bringing native oysters back to Northern Ireland; working with local communities in Alderney to train up volunteers in biological recording to better understand the impact of the nature and climate crises on the island; and developing rain gardens in Cheltenham and Gloucester to help mitigate flooding. These are just a few of the amazing programmes happening across the country and Crown Dependencies.”
To find out more, visit www.wildlifetrusts.org.
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https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF004812
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