Devon Wildlife Trust is transforming fields near Totnes to create a temperate rainforest.

It's a finding that highlights the immense importance of mature, temperate forests ... world's trees are now in danger of extinction due to global warming, deforestation and invasive species.

Thousands of trees have been planted by volunteers as part of a new temperate rainforest in south Devon ... more than a 100 local people planted species including oak, rowan, alder, hazel ...

The charity said more than a 100 local people planted species including oak ... The trust said in decades to come the new trees would form a temperate rainforest with high rainfall and humidity.