Canadian forests could be world's best preserved

[Whisper]

Canadian governments, companies and First Nation group have been preserving a greater percentage of their forests than any other country, making one American environment research group conclude that Canada's boreal forest is on its way to become the world's most protected forest landscape.

"It's already more protected, we believe, than any other intact forest ecosystem in the world — more than the Amazon, more than Siberia," Steve Kallick of the Pew Environment Group told The Vancouver Sun. "But we think it's on track to be way beyond what anybody's anticipating for those places."

Kallick will present his findings at the annual conference of the Society for Conservation Biology in Edmonton. He tells the paper that 4.4 million of Canada's 5.5 million square kilometres of boreal forests are intact and that if governments keep up with their environmental plans, three million square kilometres of that untouched forest could be protected.

By comparison, about two million square kilometres of the Amazon rainforest are under protection.

Still, Kallick cautions that the promises and agreements made by governments and industries still need to work out things like funding and timelines in order for Canada to be a global leader in protecting ecosystems.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/07/04/14604061.html

[CaptainObvious]

Let's be honest, lots of that forest is in places we wouldn't want to be anyways. But it's nice it's being protected from logging to a good extent.

[Antares]

Lets jump on the bandwagon US because it seems like natural wildlife areas are being chopped down everywhere to create really really big grocery stores :P (and lifetime fitnesses)

[Whisper]

Let's be honest, lots of that forest is in places we wouldn't want to be anyways. But it's nice it's being protected from logging to a good extent.

speak for yourself
I've been to allot of protected areas all across northern and western Canada, there beautiful
I've lived in the Yukon
I've spent a great deal of my time in northern Alberta where theres huge forests all around my town
and i now live in Nanaimo a city thats doing a great deal to protect wooded areas and natural habitat (fuck Newcastle island alone PRIME real estate in the middle of the harbor, its a provincial park)

[Zephyr]

Lets jump on the bandwagon US because it seems like natural wildlife areas are being chopped down everywhere to create really really big grocery stores :P (and lifetime fitnesses)

Speak for yourself,
50%+ of Oregon is all national parks and forests :P

[mrmcdonaldduck]

thats good to hear, but they should protect the Amazon and Congo a LOT more. there is more life in the rainforest, and they produce more oxygen. Plus they actually help europe and america with rainfall.

[Whisper]

thats good to hear, but they should protect the Amazon and Congo a LOT more. there is more life in the rainforest, and they produce more oxygen. Plus they actually help europe and america with rainfall.

Its called the Boreal forest or Taiga Forest (pronounced Tiger) and composes 1/3 of all the trees in the world, its trees start growing above the artic circle where they take more than 50yrs to grow bigger than a sapling because they only recieve sun for 1 month per year.
The Taiga generates enough oxygen on its own to regenerate all the oxygen for the entire planet.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_largest_forest_in_the_world


I agree the rainforest should be protected allot more than it is
I agree that the diversity of life within rainforest's and the amazon in particular is insane
I agree that a forest of that size can affect the climate a great deal, it acts as a C02 scrubber and causes a great deal of precipitation for a VAST area

and I agree that its being utterly annihilated

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That being said
Canada has absolutly NO say in the protection laws of the amazon or congo so posting that in this thread is kind of pointless
I also disagree with how you seem to believe one of the largest forests in the world has little effect on the planet. I realize that Canada is only a small chunk of said forest but we're the second largest country on the planet, so its better than nothing.
http://www.hww.ca/~Content/354/Images/map2_e.jpg

Technically speaking i live in a temperate rainforest (it rains....allot LOL) and huge areas of it have been preserved and/or set aside like the great bear rainforest in my home province
http://www.naturschatz.org/waldbild/aktuell/ingmarlee/download/Great-Bear-Rainforest_IanMcAllister.jpg
The Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, Canada is the largest intact, coastal temperate rainforest left in the world - http://www.savethegreatbear.org/

[CaptainObvious]

speak for yourself
I've been to allot of protected areas all across northern and western Canada, there beautiful
I've lived in the Yukon
I've spent a great deal of my time in northern Alberta where theres huge forests all around my town
and i now live in Nanaimo a city thats doing a great deal to protect wooded areas and natural habitat (fuck Newcastle island alone PRIME real estate in the middle of the harbor, its a provincial park)

I am speaking for myself. Look at your map: most of that forest lies in unpopulated areas. Which is because, relative to other places, we'd rather not be there. Dunno what you're taking issue with, I'm not saying all these places are horrible or something, just that we prefer to be elsewhere and so to have massive empty areas of forest isn't quite the accomplishment for us that it would be for a country with less space and more population.

[Jess]

Good for Canada

if only it was the same for other forests

[solid-snake]

ahem....ahhh..chueq plese