Where can you find daisies evolved into large trees, blushing snails, and woodlice that glow under UV light? 🧐
It's not a trick question - the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, one of the most remote inhabited islands on Earth, is home to species that don’t exist anywhere else in the world - and the RSPB has been working with the amazing team there for about 20 years! Rising out of the south Atlantic, 2,000km off the coast of West Africa, it holds a third of all unique British species in an area roughly the size of the Isle of Wight. Clouds cloak the mountains in a protective blanket, creating a unique habitat. ☁️🌳
Cloud forests cover less than 0.4% of the world’s land area but are home to an estimated 15% of all species - and over the last 40 years, they have decreased almost 20%. St Helena’s cloud forest alone has declined from an estimated 600 hectares before the arrival of humans in the early 1500s, to just 16 hectares today.
🎉 But there is some good news! 🎉
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