The World's Intact Forests

Backgrounders on the World's Intact Forests

1. Canada’s Boreal Forests

The Boreal Forest stretches across Northern Canada, representing 25% of the world’s remaining intact forests making this the planet’s largest unfrozen freshwater supply and an invaluable carbon storehouse. More.

2. Broadback Valley, Quebec

The Broadback River Valley, set in the ‘Nord-du-Québec region’ of the Boreal Forest, is an ecologically rich area that the Cree and environmental organizations, including
Canopy, are working to protect. More.

3. Coastal Temperate Rainforests: The Great Bear Rainforest and Beyond

With an ancient forest of towering red cedars, hemlock and spruce, where eagles soar above the treetops and rivers teem with wild salmon, coastal temperate rainforests are biologically rich forest ecosystem with one of the highest carbon storage densities anywhere in the world. More.

4. Indonesia’s Rainforests

Indonesia is home to some of the most ecologically diverse stands of tropical rainforest in the world. More.

5. Russia’s Taiga

The Taiga – Russia and Siberia’s Boreal forests provide crucial intact habitat for a variety of plants and animals, including tigers, leopards and brown bears along with many species found no where else in the world.

6. Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa

Covering 145 million hectares, the world’s second largest tropical rainforest is situated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

7. Amazon Basin, South America

The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, and the source of nearly one-fifth of all freshwater on our planet - stretching to eight South American countries.