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