The Canadian boreal forest is a very large bio-region that extends in length from the Yukon-Alaska border right across the country to Newfoundland and Labrador. It is over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) in width (north to south) separating the arctic tundra region from the various landscapes of southern Canada.

2024年4月2日 · Canada’s boreal forest (270 million hectares) stores carbon, purifies the air and water, and regulates the climate. Because a large portion of the world’s boreal zone lies in Canada (28% or 552 million hectares), this country’s boreal forest affects the health of the environment worldwide.

2024年3月27日 · Here are 8 more facts about the boreal zone and Canada’s boreal forest. 1. The boreal zone circles the world. The world’s boreal zone is often called “circumpolar” because it circles the Northern Hemisphere, forming a ring around the North Pole, just south of …

2013年6月20日 · Bordered to the north by treeless arctic tundra and to the south by temperate forest or grassland, the zone includes three ecologically distinct subzones: the northern boreal woodland, the main boreal forest and the southern boreal forest.

2018年12月14日 · At 1.3 billion acres, the Canadian Boreal Forest is one of the largest intact forest and wetland ecosystems remaining on earth. It is a major source of North America’s freshwater and home to the some of the planet’s largest populations of wolves, grizzly bears, and woodland caribou.

2024年3月20日 · The Boreal Forest in Canada alone is thought to hold a minimum of 208 billion tons of carbon under permafrost and in its trees, plants, soils, and peatlands.

2025年1月21日 · One of the greatest sweeps of forest in the world, the boreal forest (or taiga) extends in a vast and virtually unbroken sheet of green eastward from the Aleutian Islands through Alaska and northern Canada to the island of Newfoundland.

2022年7月1日 · Vast areas of Canada's untouched boreal forest provide refuge to a wide variety of wildlife, including keystone species such as salmon, black bears, and snowshoe hares. The boreal is...

2015年3月19日 · Canada’s boreal forest: Is the world’s largest intact forest ecosystem. It stretches across 1.2 billion acres (485 million hectares) of northern Canada, from the Yukon to Newfoundland and Labrador. Represents 25 percent of the world’s remaining intact forest, even more than the Amazon rain forest. Contains 25 percent of the world’s ...

Canada's boreal forest is the second biggest expanse of continuous intact forests on Earth. This massive area contains the third-largest wetland in the world, the Hudson Bay Lowlands.