Boreal Forest

Your Gift in Action

Your gift will conserve critical habitats and ensure a future for species at risk. It will also build healthier, more resilient ecosystems that provide essential benefits and services to people and their communities, while countering the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss.

Since 1962, NCC has brought Canadians together to conserve and restore more than 15 million hectares, coast to coast to coast. But we must do more faster and accelerate the pace of conservation. Every gift and donation counts.

Boreal Forest

Did you know that Canada has its own forest region of Amazonian proportions, stretching across 60 per cent of the country? It’s the boreal forest. In fact, Canada’s boreal forests are some of the largest and most intact forests left on Earth.

The boreal region stretches across northern Canada, Alaska, Asia and Europe. Accounting for more than 30 per cent of the world’s boreal forest, it is Canada’s largest ecosystem, stretching across the territories and provinces, except New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI. Canada’s boreal region is unique thanks to its abundance of lakes and wetlands, many of which are peatlands that store carbon. Boreal forests also act as large carbon sinks, regulating our climate while purifying the air we breathe and the water we drink.

Close to 75 per cent of the country’s forests are found in the boreal zone. It provides habitat for thousands of species, including woodland caribou, around 130 species of fish and more than half of Canada’s bird species. Up to three million birds migrate to the boreal forest each year to breed. Development and climate change are the greatest threats to this region and the species that live there.

By symbolically adopting boreal forest habitat, you are ensuring that these natural spaces, and the species they sustain, are protected now and for forever.

Photo 1: Birch River, AB; Photo by NCC. Photo 2: Boreal Wildlands, ON; Photo by Adam Bialo – Kontakt. Photo 3: Morrissey Meadow, BC; Photo by NCC. Photo 4: Boreal Wildlands, ON; Photo by Andrew Warren