🌎 Did you know that the Boreal Forest stretches across 1.4 billion acres, from the Yukon to Newfoundland and deep into the heart of the North? It covers 8 provinces, 3 territories, and includes lands stewarded by hundreds of Indigenous Nations. With over 500 billion trees, 25% of the world’s wetlands, and habitat for billions of birds, this isn’t just a big forest—it’s one of the largest, most important ecosystems on Earth. 🌲 Its size allows it to regulate global climate, filter clean water, a

Boreal Forest Initiative: North America's Boreal Forest is the world's largest remaining intact, productive ecosystem, encompassing more than a billion and a half acres of pristine forests, wetlands, lakes, rivers and streams. A keystone habitat for the hemisphere's migratory waterfowl and songbird populations, it also supports vast populations of fish and other wildlife. Moreover, as the world's most extensive terrestrial carbon sink and largest reservoir of surface water, North America's Borea

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