anna_lillith, 10 months ago

Imagine standing in the center of the boreal, somewhere in the #Canadian province of #Manitoba.

Nearly 1 billion acres of forest surround you. To the west, the forest stretches to #Alaska 's #BeringSea coast. To the east, it runs all the way to #Newfoundland and #Labrador. It even skips over the Atlantic into parts of #Greenland.

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https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/A09-004#:~:text%3DOn%20the%20basis%20of%20the,American%20continent%20north%20of%20Mexico

anna_lillith, 10 months ago

You may see some of the world's last great #WildlifeMigrations here. #Caribou travel as many as a thousand miles to calve. #Salmon swim up the forest's wild rivers to spawn. In the summer, billions of #birds, from whooping #cranes to #ArcticTerns, breed here. 🐦

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https://www.borealconservation.org/a-refuge-for-wildlife

anna_lillith, 10 months ago

As the #boreal 's billions of #trees breathe in #CarbonDioxide and breathe out #oxygen, the forest rivals the #Amazon for its role in cooling our overheated #planet. 🌳

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https://phys.org/news/2022-11-subarctic-boreal-forest-vital-planet.html

anna_lillith, 10 months ago

It's a vast and amazing place. Yet if history teaches anything, it's this: What #nature evolves over millennia, people can destroy in an instant.

Today, only a fraction of the #boreal is protected. The pace of #logging is increasing. 🪵

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https://www.borealscience.org/boreal/threats/

anna_lillith, 10 months ago

Consider #Procter&Gamble (P&G), the parent company of #Charmin, #Puffs, #Bounty and more: About 40% of the wood pulp that #P&G uses for its North American paper products comes from #Canada, where the #timber industry's chainsaws are busy chipping away at the #boreal.

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https://www.pginvestor.com/esg/environmental/forestry/pulp/