The Nature Conservancy in Canada

Boreal Forest

Overview
Boreal Conservation Framework
NWT Protected Areas
Sustainable Forestry
Explore the Boreal

At 1.4 billion acres, Canada’s Boreal Forest represents one of the world’s greatest conservation opportunities. Far from being just an impenetrable wilderness, this landscape is home to fascinating wildlife, ancient cultures and independent communities.

This section is designed to give you an in-depth look at the Conservancy's work in Canada’s Boreal Forest. Here, you can experience the stories behind our work through engaging feature articles and multimedia.

Voices of Change: Climate Change Planning in the Boreal
The First Nations of Canada’s North see the effects of climate change every day. Daniel T’seleie works as a climate change planner in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. He is working with local community elders, collecting dramatic stories about how they have experienced climate change in their lifetime. Meet Daniel and hear these stories yourself.

Last Stand in the Boreal
Explore Canada’s Mackenzie Valley, where an alliance of First Nations, government, industry, and conservation groups is working to set aside ecologically and culturally important lands in a network of protected areas before the intact landscape is opened up to development with the construction of a proposed new natural gas pipeline. The race for a conservation first is on. Learn more

Birds of the Boreal Forest
The Boreal Forest is North America’s songbird nursery, providing breeding habitat for more than 30 percent of North America’s entire bird population. One-third of all land birds in the US and Canada (more than 3 billion) migrate to the region each summer to feed and fledge their young. Learn more

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photos © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Nestor Falls); © Mike Palmer/TNC (Hike in NWT); Photo © Bridget Paule/TNC (teepee on lake in NWT); Photo © Janet Haas (northern hawk owl).