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www.interboreal.org |
International Boreal Conservation Campaign, an arm of Pew Charitable Trusts is dedicated to education and advocacy on behalf of the world's boreal forests. |
nsidc.org |
National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map, Ground Temperature Maps, Circum-Arctic Permafrost Map. |
www.taigarescue.org |
Boreal Forest Network is the North American Affiliate of the Taiga Rescue Network. Aims to protect primary intact boreal forests, and the protection and maintance of traditional cultural values and rights of Indigenous Peoples and Nations living in the Boreal Forest of North America. |
borealinfo.org |
Boreal Information Center of the Conservation Biology Institute and Global Forest Watch Canada. Data for conservation assessments in the boreal and taiga ecozones of Canada. |
www.savebiogems.org |
NRDC's BioGems Defenders have joined other environmental activists and indigenous communities in an urgent campaign to save Canada's Boreal Forest. |
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Less than 8 percent of Canada's boreal forest is protected. |
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