Europe's First Temperate Rainforest Station Opens New Conservation Path

The Thousand Year Trust has built a £750,000 research station on Bodmin Moor—Europe's first permanent facility for monitoring Atlantic rainforest. These temperate forests once spanned western Britain and coastal Europe but fragmented under centuries of grazing and felling. A permanent base enables researchers to collect data across decades, matching restoration timescales that operate over centuries rather than grant cycles.