🇨🇦 Boreal Shield, Canada’s sprawling forest heart in Northern Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Ontario, delivers $10B/year in ecosystem services!🍁
🌲Covering 1.8M km² approximately 20% of Canada’s land and being a global carbon sink, it sequesters 10 Mt CO2/year and supports species like moose, wolves while being home to First Nations communities. It provide timber and facilitate tourism. 🐺
🪵Logging, mining, climate change, wildfires, and permafrost thaw threaten its delicate balance.🫒
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