Podcasts — Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest

Yes! Scotland has rainforest, and very special rainforest at that. The soft wet fringes of the west coast have just the tight conditions for rainforests to form with an amazing variety of mosses, lichens, bugs and beasts. It is highly fragmented and threatened ... but a lifeline is emerging as local people and groups with bigger organisations like Woodland Trust Scotland and RSPB come together to think and act in a coordinated way.

Take a trip to RSPB Scotland's Inversnaid nature reserve on Loch Lomond. Hear about an exciting new project on the Morvern peninsula working with communities to protect, restore and expand the rainforest. Plus, learn to love lichens.

What are Scotland’s rainforests, why are they special, what are the threats and how do we look after them? Recorded on site at Taynish National Nature Reserve with Helen Bibby Senior Conservation Consultant SAC Consulting and Stan Phillips from NatureScot.

Header image: male redstart, Ben Andrew (rspb-images.com)