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Saving North America's Last Frontier

From part of the largest coastal temperate rainforest surviving on the planet to the 1.6-billion-acre Boreal Forest, Canada offers opportunities for conservation on a scale that is unimaginable almost anywhere else on Earth.

From the Great Bear Rainforest that fringes the coast of British Columbia to the Boreal Forest that is the green heart of the continent, Canada is a land where caribou still haunt the woodlands and wolves still sing down the moon. It is a place of hope, beauty and change and it is one of the greatest conservation opportunities remaining on Earth.

Check out these stories about how your support for the Conservancy helps ensure the health and survival of the natural world that sustains us all.

First Nations Interns 215x143Plant identification during a summer internship in the Great Bear Rainforest. © Shannon Martin/TNC
First Nations Youth Immersed in the Great Bear Rainforest

Summer internship empowers a new generation of Great Bear Rainforest leaders. Learn more

Grizzly Research 215x143William Housty, the Coastwatch Program Director and a member of the Heiltsuk tribe photographed next to a barbwire snare in the Great Bear Rainforest along the Koeye River in British Columbia, Canada. William is collecting Grizzly bear fur for DNA identification that has been caught on carefully placed barbwire snares as part of a field research project to identify individual bears who depend on the Koeye River and its watershed for food. The Nature Conservancy, along with others, supports the work of the Heiltsuk people in protecting the unique and unspoiled habitat of the Koeye River valley. © Mark Godfrey/TNC
Grizzly Research

Would you hike 20 miles through bear country reeking of salmon? William Housty does. Learn about grizzly research

Continental Divide Splash image 490x250Mt. Hefty lookout over Flathead valley. © Garth Lenz/iLCP
Continental Divide

Can two countries come together to save a pristine valley? Learn More

Great Bear Rainforest New York Learning ExchangeStudents at the New York High School for Environmental Studies learn about Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest. © TNC
Bella Bella to Broadway

Conservancy-supported initiative brings young First Nations leaders to New York City.  Learn more

WOPA091027_D004 2011-01-28 215x143Photographs of the Great Bear Rainforest in western Canada from the book " The Great Bear Rainforest: Canada's Forgotten Coast" by Ian McAllister. Karen McAllister and Cameron Young. The Great Bear Rainforest is the name given by environmental groups in the 1990s to a region of the temperate rain forest ecoregion specifically Pacific temperate rain forest ecoregion, located on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, from Vancouver Island north to the border with the US state of Alaska. At the invitation of a broad group of partners, The Nature Conservancy led and completed a successful fundraising campaign in support of historic land use agreements in the Great Bear Rainforest. © Ian McAllister
From Timber Wars to Conservation Agreements

Conservation management and ecologically sustainable business ventures transform the economies of British Columbia’s coastal temperate rainforests. Learn More

Sustainable Forestry in the BorealCape May warbler © Bruce Sorrie
Sustainable Forestry in the Boreal

Conservation in this landscape can only succeed by accounting for the needs of humans and nature. Learn More

WOPA050902_D132 2011-01-28 215x143Bald eagle in United States, North America. © Janet Haas
A Bird's World

Flitting in and out of dense forest stands, and bobbing just beneath the water’s surface, an astonishing array of birds live in the Great Bear Rainforest. Learn More

Northwest Territories Protected Areas StrategyWorkshop participants plan for the future of the Boreal Forest. © PACTeam Canada
A Race Against Time

The Conservancy provides science to a First Nations-lead initiative before it's too late. Learn More

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Photo Special Features TabLion in Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa. © Kenneth K. Coe

Close Encounters with Nature

Whether scary or exciting, nature has a way of sneaking up on you. See stories

Arden OConnor 215x143Arden O’Connor. © Lajla LeBlanc

Nature Matters

Hear some of nature's success stories and see how nature matters to us all. Watch videos

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