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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Beament

Britain’s rainforests home to wildlife from giant slugs to white-tailed eagles

Temperate rainforest Ausewell in south-west England (WTML/PA) -

Britain’s rare rainforests are home to wildlife from eagles to the world’s largest slugs and lichen which looks like dragon skin, say conservationists battling to save them.

The Woodland Trust has unveiled a list of 11 of the “weird and wonderful” wildlife which make their home in temperate rainforests found in the south west and north west of England, Wales and Scotland.

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