In 2020, writer and campaigner Guy Shrubsole moved from London to Devon. As he explored the wooded valleys, rivers and tors of Dartmoor, Guy discovered a spectacular habitat that he had never encountered before: temperate rainforest. Britain, Guy discovered, was once a rainforest nation. This is the story of a unique habitat that has been so ravaged, most people today don’t realise it exists. Temperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain and played host to a dazzling variety of luminous life-forms. Though only fragments now remain, they form a rare and internationally important habitat. But why are even environmentalists unaware of their existence? And how have we managed to so comprehensively excise them from our cultural memory? The Lost Rainforests of Britain maps these under-recognised ecosystems in exquisite detail — but underlines that without immediate political and public support, we risk losing them from the landscape, and perhaps our collective memory, forever.