The Boreal Zone covers 1.9 billion hectares of Earth.


24% of it
is in Canada

348 million
hectares of forest in Canada.

9% of the world’s forests


318 billion trees


8.953 trees per person

3.67 billion – tons of carbon emissions are being captured by the earth’s forests, farms and grasslands.

80,000 acres
of forests disappear from Earth every day

1.6 billion
people rely on forests for their livelihoods worldwide

47 billion
cubic metres of wood in Canada’s forests