KEY FINDINGS  
       

North America
Canada

Land area (CIA Fact book) - 9,093,507 km2
Estimated population 2005 (CIA Fact book) - 32,805,041

Total forest area 2000 (WRI) - 2,445,710 km2
Natural forest area 2000 (WRI) - no data
Annual % forest cover change 1990-2000 (WRI) - no data

Key Findings

Forest zone (zone of analysis) - 60.5 % country area
Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL) area - 3,091,320 km2
% of forest zone occupied by IFL - 52.9 %
% world IFL located in country - 23.6 %
% of IFL areas located in strict protected areas (WDPA) - 5.9 %

For more information about Intact Forest Landscapes in Canada provinces see here

IFL forest density assessment

% Closed forests, Open forests and Non-forest ecosystems inside IFL and outside IFL

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Intact Forest Landscapes borders - Google Earth KMZ-file:
Block 2 (6 141 kb)
Block 3 (1 198 kb)
Block 10 (4 549 kb)
Block 11 (14 265 kb)
Block 12 (7 092 kb)
Block 13 (1 060 kb)

Intact Forest Landscapes borders - ArcView SHP-file:
Block 2 (2 722 kb)
Block 3 (518 kb)
Block 10 (1 984 kb)
Block 11 (6 074 kb)
Block 12 (3 011 kb)
Block 13 (447 kb)

Intact Forest Landscapes borders - TIFF-file:
Block 2 (12 510 kb)
Block 3 (8 859 kb)
Block 10 (7 914 kb)
Block 11 (12 316 kb)
Block 12 (13 339 kb)
Block 13 (4 653 kb)

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Authors

Based on "Remaining wildlands of the Northern forests" (GFW, 2002, unreviewed draft)

Updated by S. Turubanova and P. Potapov (Greenpeace)

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