Canada’s boreal forest primed to be world’s best-protected ecosystem

 Canada’s boreal forest primed to be world’s best-protected ecosystem.About 4.4 million of Canada's 5.5 million square kilometres of boreal forest are intact, according to Steve Kallick, director of the Pew Environment Group’s boreal campaign. Approximately two-thirds of that — or about three million square kilometres — could be protected.

“It’s already more protected, we believe, than any other intact forest ecosystem in the world — more than the Amazon, more than Siberia,” said Kallick. “But we think it’s on track to be way beyond what anybody’s anticipating for those other places.”