The Thousand Year Trust is being launched this week by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison, who suffered posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after three tours of Afghanistan and is now transforming his 120-hectare (300acre) hill farm on Bodmin Moor into the largest rainforest restoration project in England and Wales.
The charity is working with local farmers, landowners and charities to identify land suitable to help treble Cornwall's estimated 1,200-1,600 hectares of surviving temperate rainforest, with an ultimate aim of tripling Britain's total surviving rainforest to 400,000 hectares within 30 years.
"We've all grown up thinking of rainforests as tropical rainforests and that's how I grew up, not realising there was a rainforest on my doorstep a temperate rainforest, the most stunning habitat we have in the UK," said Hanbury-Tenison.
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