Where are the Boreal and Taiga climate regions in Canada?
‘Canada contains about a third of the world’s Boreal forest, named after Boreas, the Greek god of the North Wind. TAIGA is the Russian name for this forest which covers so much of that country. However, the term is used in North America as well. Stretching more than 5 000 km from Newfoundland and Labrador in the east to Yukon in the west, and extending south 1 000 km from the edge of the arctic tundra, the boreal region occupies more than half of Canada’s land area. Many of the species that we think of as being particularly Canadian—black spruce, jack pine, moose, caribou, grey jays, loons, wood frogs, and lake trout—are part of the boreal ecosystem. The boreal region also contains more than 1.5 million lakes and many of the main river systems in the country. It is home to more than four million people, including most of Canada’s Aboriginal people. It is rich in natural resources too, with extensive mineral, oil, and gas deposits, as well as waterways for hydroelectric power. The clima
