Provincial and Territorial Forest Facts
Explore Canada's Boreal Forest by Province and Territory to see what makes each part of the boreal forest special.
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Newfoundland and Labrador's Boreal Forest:
- is approximately 380,000 km2 (94 million acres) in size – larger than Germany.1
- comprises 7% of Canada's Boreal Forest.
- is home to 14 aboriginal communities.2
- stores 21 billion tonnes of carbon in its soils, peat and forests – equivalent to more than 100 years' worth of Canada’s GHG emissions in CO2 equivalent at 2014 levels.3
- is the breeding ground for 70 to 200 million birds of more than 150 bird species, including Harlequin Duck, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Bay-breasted Warbler and Rusty Blackbird.
- supports more than 3,000, or 9%, of Canada's threatened boreal Woodland caribou population.4
- features 326,000 km2 (80 million acres) of intact forest, peatland and wetland habitat free from industrial development, making up 86% of the province's boreal region.5
- is home to the Black Spruce, Newfoundland's provincial tree.
- features the world's largest tundra-dwelling caribou herd in Labrador's George River region.
1 Canadian Boreal Initiative. 2003. Canada's Boreal Region.
2 Aboriginal Canada Portal (www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca), and Global Forest Watch.
3 Tarnocai, C. and Lacelle, B. 1996. Soil Organic Carbon Digital Database of Canada. Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Center, Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
4 Environment Canada. 2008. Scientific Review for the Identification of Critical Habitat for Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), Boreal Population, in Canada. August 2008.
5 Global Forest Watch Canada. 2009. Canada's Forest Landscape Fragments: A Second Approximation.
