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The Boreal in the Balance: Securing The Future of Canada's Boreal Region

by the Canadian Boreal Initiative

January 31, 2005

Canada's Boreal region represents an unprecedented global conservation opportunity.

Canada's Boreal region is a place of immense beauty and power. It is home to abundant populations of wildlife – including billions of migrating songbirds, some of the largest caribou herds in the world, and the predators who depend on them. Its forests, lakes and wetlands purify our water, produce oxygen, and moderate our climate – vital ecosystem services upon which we depend for life. Home to over 600 Aboriginal communities, it is also a source of spiritual renewal and economic livelihood for many Canadians.

Representing 25% of the world's remaining intact forests, the Canadian Boreal is one of the last places left on earth that can maintain a fully functioning ecosystem capable of sustaining such abundance.

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