The Atlantics: An initiative to restore British Temperate Rainforests through jungle revitalization.
The Atlantics is a collaborative project that aims at envisioning of a space where the human and non-human roles have reversed. Its a space where we “humans” would feel the same dread, exhaustion, loss that the distruction of what we understand as our home, space, right would be taken away from us. A space that, just like the very first tall concrete structure, human need and technology, could become a catalyst for the temperate rainforest to take back its land towards the ancient vernacular landscape of the UK.
Britain’s temperate rainforests are globally important due to the richness and rarity of the lichen and bryophyte species they support, some of which are found nowhere else in the world. In a biodiversity risis, we can’t afford to let this fragile habitat, and the species that rely on it, to disappear.
The site is a hidden gem of a place, where Chorlton Brook meanders and tinkles through the last remnant of ancient woodland associated - Hough End Clough.
This project is a call to action in addition to being a study. By encouraging others to take up this project and help spread the restoration’s ripples far and wide, we hope to ensure a future in which life— in all its amazing diversity— can continue to flourish.
After all,
“THE EARTH IS WHAT WE ALL HAVE IN COMMON” - WENDELL BERRY
