![]() ![]() In the Northwest Territories, the Łutsël K’e Dene First Nation worked with the Canadian government to create the Thaidene Nëné National Park Reserve, one of the biggest protected areas in the country.Together, these Indigenous-led proposals could protect more than 100 million acres of boreal forest. ![]() Indigenous Nations are responsible for many of the most ambitious current proposals to preserve boreal lands. Science-based conservation strategies help to protect large stretches of the boreal forest from the threats of development and the effects of climate change. Thankfully, the last 10-15 years have brought some of the world’s largest modern land-conservation designations, which protect critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory birds. It is home to a quarter of the world’s wetlands, with millions of lakes-including some of the largest and most pristine on Earth-and the longest free-flowing rivers remaining in North America. Canada’s Boreal Forest alone holds about 12 percent of the world’s land-based carbon reserves. The boreal forest captures and stores enormous amounts of carbon, especially within its soils, peatlands and permafrost. Caribou, bears, wolves, lynxes and wolverines, and countless other species thrive in the boreal in numbers rarely seen elsewhere. Every fall, up to 5 billion birds pour out of the forest and fly south to backyards, parks, and wildlands throughout the Western Hemisphere. Stretching from Alaska to Labrador, it provides nesting grounds and migratory stopovers for nearly half of the common bird species found in North America. The Boreal Forest-North America’s bird nursery-is one of the largest intact forests left on Earth.
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