Skip to content
  • Happy Health
  • Happy Mindset
  • Animal Wonders
  • About Us
    • Team
  • Subscribe
Menu
  • Happy Health
  • Happy Mindset
  • Animal Wonders
  • About Us
    • Team
  • Subscribe
Happy News

Volunteers Just Planted A Rainforest And They Brought Their Kids Along To Plant The Last Tree

On a small island in the Irish Sea, a team of volunteers just finished planting 30,000 trees and completed their work two full years ahead of schedule. The Manx Wildlife Trust acquired a 105-acre site called Creg y Cowin in the Baldwin Valley on the Isle of Man in 2023, and in just three years its volunteers planted every tree needed to establish a functioning temperate rainforest on the land. The chief executive of the trust called it incredible work and said the volunteers should be genuinely proud. The project is part of a larger Temperate Rainforest Restoration Programm led by the Wildlife Trusts across the British Isles, Ireland and the Isle of Man, funded with nearly 39 million pounds to restore woodland in areas with the right climate and geography. The Isle of Man, it turns out, has both in abundance.

Temperate rainforests are among the rarest ecosystems in the world, and the trust describes them as plants growing on plants growing on plants: dense layers of mosses, lichens and native species covering every surface in a way that improves biodiversity, flood defense and water quality all at once. The trees planted at Creg y Cowin are native mixed-species, chosen for the island’s conditions, and the trust hopes to eventually bring cattle and sheep onto the land once the trees are large enough to handle it, roughly 15 years from now. The full woodland could take close to half a century to reach maturity, meaning many of the volunteers who planted it will not be alive to walk through it. The chief executive noted something that stuck: many of them had brought their children along on planting day. He said he loved the idea of those children returning one day with their own kids, to a proper woodland they had helped begin.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw8v7xzpdgo

PrevPreviousSweden Is Replacing Classroom Screens With Books And The World Is Paying Attention
NextSickle Cell Has Been Cured For The First Time EVERNext

Recent Articles

Happy News

The Oldest Dog On Record Just Got Even Older

April 5, 2026

Dogs have been living alongside humans for a very long time, but two new studies published in the journal Nature just pushed that timeline back by about 5,000 years and introduced us to the oldest dog whose identity has ever been confirmed through genetics. Researchers examined ancient DNA from the

Read More
Happy News

The C-3PO Head From The Empire Strikes Back Just Sold For Over One Million Dollars

April 4, 2026

It was the only one of its kind ever to appear on the collector market, and it just sold for more than a million dollars. The light-up C-3PO head used on set during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 sold at a Propstore auction for 1,058,400 dollars,

Read More
Happy News

A Sea Slug Study Just Changed What We Know About How To Actually Make Memory Stick

April 4, 2026

If you have ever crammed the night before and found it mostly gone by morning, there is now a cellular explanation for why that happens, and it comes from an unlikely source: sea slugs. Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center studied the neurons of Aplysia, a sea

Read More
« Previous Next »
  • Privacy Notice
  • Accessibility Notice
  • Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
  • Unsubscribe
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Notice
  • Accessibility Notice
  • Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
  • Unsubscribe
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2026 HappyNews.