A forest of blue : Forêt bleue : la forêt boréale du Canada : le gardien d'eau de la planète

In the northwest territories, the majority of food and supplies brought to the aboriginal communities on and around the Mackenzie river are brought by barges from the south. [...] Yukon River Basin the Yukon, the second-longest river in Canada’s boreal forest, is shared by Canada and alaska and provides a major proportion of the input of freshwater and nutrients to the Bering sea, one of the most ecologically and economically productive marine ecosystems on earth. [...] CredIt: daVId nUnUk Figure 8. the intact watersheds and free-flowing rivers of newfoundland and labrador and Quebec provide critical spawning and rearing habitat for the largest populations of atlantic salmon as compared with the original distributions in southern Canada and the United states, of which most are now extirpated or declining. [...] In at the heart of the new plan is a change 2009, the federal Commissioner of from the unchecked free entry system the environment and sustainable of mining exploration to a permitting development report noted the process that requires aboriginal department of Fisheries and oceans consultation and maintains conservation “lacks information on fish stocks, obligations (Canadian Boreal Initiative qua