About Canada's Boreal
Canada's Boreal is one of the last frontier forests in the world. Most of the planet's other great forests have been lost to industrial development, but Canada's Boreal is still home to billions of migratory songbirds, majestic caribou herds, a diversity of fragile plants and large predators like lynx and wolverine.
Vital to humanity
Canada's Boreal provides essential services that human society depends on, such as purifying the air that we breathe and the water we drink. As the largest terrestrial storehouse for carbon, Canada's Boreal helps slow the pace of climate change.
The greatest threat to Canada's Boreal is industrial development and its effects, such as climate change. Although much of the forest is still relatively intact, industrial activities like logging, mining, and oil and gas development continue to eat away at our remaining wilderness areas.