Native Woodland

Native woodlands provide extremely important habitats to a huge variety of wildlife.  Atlantic Oakwood native woodland habitat once covered the whole western fringe of Europe from Spain to Norway with the warm and wet climate of the Gulf Stream providing the perfect growing conditions for a complex web of oak, birch, rowan, hazel and holly and almost more importantly the rich diversity of lichens, mosses and ferns that grow on and around them. These in turn provide for an abundance of insects, rare butterflies and birds. This habitat is in fact the European rainforest but only fragments survive, the largest part in Britain and mainly on the west coast of Scotland.