After long negotiations there has been what is hailed as a landmark deal in the efforts to protect one of western Canada’s most magnificent landscapes and its flora and fauna for the future.
The temperate forests is rather unique to the North American west coast and in the Great Bear Rainforest lives among other species the spirit bears – a rare subspecies of the grizzly bear with white fur instead of the common brown-black.
Scientists have found and with the use of data from NASA, British and German sources managed to map parts of an impressive canyon buried under the permanent ice cover on Greenland.
The canyon stretches over 750 km in length and is some 800 m deep at parts, which makes it comparable to the Grand Canyon in the US.
When smaller farms are abandoned, the tropical forests get new space. These “secondary forests” have now started to be used as an argument in the debate on rainforest deforestation and the impact on climate change.