Taiga: Difference between revisions

Some nations are discussing protecting areas of the taiga by prohibiting [[logging]], [[mining]], [[fossil fuel exploration|oil and gas production]], and other forms of development. Responding to a letter signed by 1,500 scientists calling on political leaders to protect at least half of the boreal forest,<ref>{{cite web|title=1,500 Scientists Worldwide Call for Protection of Canada's Boreal Forest|url=http://www.borealbirds.org/scienceletter.shtml|website=Boreal Songbird Initiative|access-date=25 June 2012}}</ref> two Canadian provincial governments, Ontario and Quebec, offered election promises to discuss measures in 2008 that might eventually classify at least half of their northern boreal forest as "protected".<ref>{{cite news|last=Gillespie|first=Kerry|title=Ontario to protect vast tract|url=https://www.thestar.com/article/460305|access-date=25 June 2012|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=2008-07-15|archive-date=2012-02-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229221024/http://www.thestar.com/article/460305|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Marsden|first=William|title=Charest promises to protect north|url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=129450f0-d3c0-4337-8f09-9977ff6c1f40|access-date=25 June 2012|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|date=2008-11-16|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405215648/https://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=129450f0-d3c0-4337-8f09-9977ff6c1f40|archive-date=5 April 2011}}</ref> Although both provinces admitted it would take decades to plan, working with Aboriginal and local communities and ultimately mapping out precise boundaries of the areas off-limits to development, the measures were touted to create some of the largest protected areas networks in the world once completed. Since then, however, very little action has been taken.

 

 

==Natural disturbance==