This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Friday, 21 October 2022
Bringing It All Back Home?
An Atlantic temperate rainforest once covered much of the west coasts of Britain and Ireland. That forest thrived in the prevailing wet and mild conditions of those locations. Only fragments of the rainforest still exist but, what are the chances of bringing it back? (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/21/exclusive-lost-rainforest-could-be-revived-across-20-of-great-britain). Britain's Atlantic temperate rainforest once covered 20% of the terrain. Human activity has, however, reduced the rainforest to a fragment of less than 1%. Pockets of the rainforest currently survive in the Brecon Beacons of Wales and Dartmoor's Ausewell wood. There's a suggestion that Britain's Atlantic temperate rainforest could be reconstituted. This is a nice idea but sadly it's unlikely. The UK's current (and future?) government hardly makes spending on environmental issues a priority (to put it mildly). The change would cost a lot of money. It's also more than possible that, the wet but mild characeteristics of the designated area, will fail to persist. Climate change could easily rule this out!
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