Canada's Boreal Forest is a 1.4 billion acre ecosystem containing forest, lakes, rivers, and wetlands. To date 12% of the Boreal has been protected. However, the Boreal faces threats from unsustainable industrial activity, including logging, mining, hydropower, and oil and gas development. IBCC seeks to permanently protect 50% of the Boreal Forest and ensure that the remaining lands are developed according to sustainable guidelines as laid out on the Boreal Forest Conservation Framework. 

Canada's Boreal Forest is one of the last intact forests in the world, accounting for 25% of all remaining undisturbed forests globally. Enabling large-scale conservation now will prevent it from ending up like so many of the world's lost intact landscapes.

This map contrasts what is still intact versus what has been altered by human activity since the beginning of agricultural and industrial development.
Map reposted with permission from Canadian Geographic.