The National Trust plans to create vast new areas of temperate rainforest in the south-west of England.
More than 100,000 trees will be planted in north Devon to create swathes of humid woodland that will be home to plants facing extinction.
Experts say the area’s heavy rainfall and high humidity levels provide a unique moisture-rich environment.
Other projects to recreate the lost rainforests of Britain are already ongoing.
Temperate rainforests once covered large areas of the western coast of Britain.
Read more at Devon tree planting: Work to recreate lost rainforest
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