{"id":597747,"date":"2026-05-22T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597747\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:33:09","slug":"rare-species-found-in-scotlands-declining-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597747\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare species found in Scotland&#8217;s declining rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world, ranking 28th from the bottom of a list of 240 countries and territories. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The State of Nature report, published in 2023, showed there had been a 15% decline in average species abundance since 1994.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lichens, bryophytes (mosses) and flowering plants, for which the rainforest provides the ideal environment, have suffered &#8220;massive declines in distributions since the 1970s,&#8221; the report added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In January, the Scottish Parliament passed the Natural Environment Bill which aims to halt and reverse the losses being experienced in our biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Legally-binding targets will be set in secondary legislation for the restoration of habitats such as temperate rainforests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additional reporting by Julie Anne Barnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world, ranking 28th from the bottom of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}