Rainforests are home to the majority of plant and animal species in the world. Rain forest biomes, which include temperate and tropical rainforests, can be found on every continent except Antarctica.

There are two different types of rainforests, temperate and tropical. Tropical rainforests are more common around the world. Also, escape with these gorgeous river photos from around the world.

Most people unaware Britain hosts wildlife-rich rainforests, polling suggests - Nature charity Plantlife is calling for greater protection of Britain’s hidden and threatened temperate rainforest.

The Woodland Trust has led the project to sow 75,000 seeds of trees native to Atlantic temperate rainforest, including pedunculate oak, alder, wild cherry, downy birch and hazel, ...

Hundreds of acres of rainforest are to be restored on the Isle of Man, in the largest project so far in a £38 million scheme to revive the rare habitat.. Manx Wildlife Trust will restore 750 ...

In 2020, Klages and his colleagues published a paper in the journal Nature about temperate rainforests near the South Pole that may have flourished during the mid-Cretaceous period, "one of the ...

The term “temperate rainforest”, or “Celtic rainforest”, has rapidly gained public attention in the UK recently. In February 2023, British insurance company, Aviva, awarded £38 million of ...

Temperate rainforest used to cover around a fifth of the UK, but today it stretches over just 1% - scattered in small fragments along the west coast where conditions are wet and mild. Pictured ...

Temperate rainforests used to cover many parts of the country, but have been cleared over thousands of years and can only now be found in small areas along western coastlines.