Taiga, the world's largest forest

Taiga, the world’s largest forest

Taiga, the world's largest forest

Taiga is a 15 million square km polar forest It draws a wide band at the south of the tundra of arctic regions around the polar circle.

It is continuous over 12,000 km including about 7,000km in Eurasia and 5,000 km in North America It absorbs 20% of the world’s carbon emissions

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Taiga, the world's largest forest

It is the world’s first forest in area before the Amazon rainforest which covers 5.5 million square km

This forest is therefore one of the most important lungs on the planet in the same way as the Amazon It is also called:

Boreal Forest It is a dense forest of conifers and hardwoods It is home to many animal species such as wolves, brown bears, grizzly bears, reindeers, caribous and elks.

Many birds live in these trees due to abundant insect which represents their main food.

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It is one of the main terrestrial biomes It alone occupies 10% of the land It’s between 10 and 15 degrees during the summer And can go down to -30 degrees in winter

A small population of Aboriginal people lives in these forests.

They live on reindeer herding.

This requires them to be very mobile because reindeers have to migrate to the tundra during the summer.

During the cold winter they are in the Taiga

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