Celtic Rainforest Ranger

Aim: We are raising finance to employ a Celtic Rainforest Ranger to work across our newly established temperate rainforest expansion sites.

The Hyper Oceanic region of the Southwest is home to one of the rarest woodland habitats - temperate rainforest. This once prolific woodland would have flowed from the deep western rocks of lands end, growing wild across the Cornish and Devonshire moors, deep into the Welsh landscape and beyond into the Isles and Highlands of Western Scotland. A Celtic Rainforest, vast and biodiverse. Species rich with wild animals, delicate fauna, mosses, lichens, fungi. Trees dripping with epithites, plants upon plants and bryophytes, rocks covered with life and for millennia, this was our home. 

But this lush arboreal land is now in our past. The dense rainforest that connected our western Celtic lands lies fragmented, diminished and desperate. 98 percent of this precious forest has been removed from our landscape, leaving an endangered 2 percent. Surviving in steep valleys, inaccessible areas that avoided the axe. But these woodlands still teem with life, hosting rare lichens, majestic ancient trees, enchanting fungi, creating habitat for birds and wildlife. 

For the UK to meet its biodiversity and carbon target, we need to protect and expand these precious rainforests, and we need no longer to turn our backs on our arboreal home but to walk back to the woods and grow our future. Committing to restoring nature is the only way  we can have an effective and radical push back against climate change. And temeperate rainforests is one of the best ways to acheive this. These woodlands will absorb carbon as they grow and live, helping to fliter and restore our water courses, creating a home for wildlife and a place for us to connect back to nature

Plant One works across the South West to restore woodland habitats and to make them culturally significant once more. Plant One has a mission to establish 30 million square metres of woodland across the south west by 2050. To achieve this we are raising finances to employ a Celtic Rainforest Ranger. Plant One has 1000 acres of newly established woodlands. The rangers' responsibilities will be to measure biodiversity uplift across our sites, to document our rare species, to liaise with our in-house team of woodland creators to ensure we are effectively nurturing our woodlands into life. But importantly we want to connect people back to nature. Our Celtic rainforest ranger will help to coordinate volunteer days, educational outreach days, connecting and responding to the public and making sure they are an essential part of restoring nature. To find our way back, we need to all to come together, nature restoration cant happened behind closed gates disconnected from the community. Our ranger will help forge those connections that will help the community restore the land for future generations.

Additional woodland habitats will boost biodiversity, protect and enhance water sources and sequester carbon. We will effectively deliver woodland creation by engaging with landowners and the community, ensuring everyone has access and can play a part in restoring nature.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 21st July 2025 at 5:34pm