Distribution of global forest area. FAO. The boreal represents nearly 30% of the world's forest cover.; Canada contains 9% of the world's forests. 77% of Canadian forests are in the boreal zone.

A boreal owl peers out from a nest box north of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in March 2024. (Photo by Kristen Rozell) During studies in the early 2000s, biologist Jack Whitman found that ...

From a hardy frog to better-known bears and reindeer, meet the tenacious animals that inhabit the taiga (boreal forest), the largest biome on land.

In the boreal forest of Western Canada, researchers have considered that both changing climate and increased habitat alteration have enabled deer to push farther north. As the climate changes ...

Flames from the Donnie Creek wildfire burn along a ridgetop north of Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada, on July 2, 2023. Fire is part of the ecology of boreal forests, but climate change is ...

The boreal caribou relies on 1,000 square kilometres of undisturbed northern forests in Ontario for habitat. But under ...

Ontario is failing to effectively protect some of the critical habitat for boreal caribou, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has warned in a letter to the province obtained by The Canadian Press.

A new study examining nearly a half century of logging in Ontario and Quebec warns the practice has left forests in the provinces severely depleted — and put the majestic woodland caribou at risk.

However, in boreal peatland forests—those in wetlands like bogs—the level of passive recovery was predicted to be much lower, ...

The boreal toad is a native to Colorado's wetlands. But the amphibian's numbers have been decimated the last 20 years by habitat loss and more significantly by the chytrid fungus.