Canada, an immense geographic territory with a diversity and natural resources to match. A land of plentiful lakes and rivers, forests and prairies, mountains and plains, fresh air and outstanding agrarian land.

• Over 25% of the world's never-before harvested forest is in Canada's boreal forest.
• Canada's boreal forest include seven of the world's ten largest blocks of unfragmented forest.
• Canada's boreal forest holds more surface freshwater than any other place on Earth.
• Great Bear Lake in the North West Territories represents the world's largest pristine lake.
• There are millions of lakes and ponds held within Canada's boreal forest.
• The boreal forest has greater numbers of free-flowing, undammed rivers than the rest of North America combined.
• Canada's boreal forest rivers are among the last strongholds of migratory fish such as Pacific salmon swimming up the Stikine, Nass and Skeena rivers into the headwaters of northern British Columbia.
• More than ten million birds a day stream across the Canada-U.S. border in spring to summer in Canada's boreal forest.
• Up to three billion birds will make the trip to Canada's boreal forest during their spring migration.
• The Hudson and James Bay Lowlands, an immense area that runs from Northern Manitiba across Northern Ontario and into Quebec represents one of the largest wetlands on Earth; a massive storehouse of terrestrial carbon.
• With its fish and insects, the boreal forest supports over 300 species of birds.
• Canada's boreal hosts healthy populations of grizzly bears, timber wolves and wolverine.
• Home to migratory caribou herds, some travelling thousands of kilometres from calving grounds in the Canadian tundra to wintering areas in the boreal.
• Unique in nature, landlocked freshwater harbour seals in Quebec's Tursujuq National Park.
• The boreal also holds New World and Old World evolutionary lineages of both caribou and wolves.