Remaining ‘Pristine’ Forest Under Threat

The latest news from Russia, Canada and other northern countries shows that the world's only remaining 'pristine' forest - the boreal forest across large stretches of the northern hemisphere is facing increasing threat to its environment and is fast becoming one of world’s most serious global issues.
Researchers from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, University of Adelaide in Australia and the National University of Singapore have called for continuing education of humans in green living and wildlife conservation to ensure urgent preservation of existing boreal forests. This will secure biodiversity and prevent the loss of this major global carbon sink. Our carbon footprint must be reduced and these crucial environmental issues must be addressed.
The boreal forest comprises about one-third of the world’s forested area and one-third of the world’s stored carbon, covering a large proportion of Russia, Canada, Alaska and Scandinavia.
To date, it has remained largely intact because of the usually sparse human populations in boreal regions.
That is now changing.
The findings, which have been published online in the Trends in Ecology and Evolution paper 'Urgent preservation of boreal carbon stocks and biodiversity', suggest that fire is the main cause of this deforestation and human activity is leading to more fires. There is also evidence that climate change is increasing the amount and possibly the extent of fires in the boreal zone which in turn is highly damaging to such precious environments.

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