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| Answer» <html><body><p>ong>Answer:</p><p>Some 1.6m hectares of remote land in the province of Alberta are being made into new or extended provincial parks.</p><p></p><p>A 6.7m hectare conservation zone will now be protected and free from logging or oil and gas exploration.</p><p></p><p>Boreal (or coniferous) forests occur in northern climes with long, cold winters and short summers. They are among the world's densest forests.</p><p></p><p>Canada's boreal zone is home to threatened wood bison, peregrine falcon and woodland caribou populations.</p><p></p><p>Image copyrightCOURTESY ADAM HILLWoodland buffalo</p><p>Image captionWoodland Buffalo are <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/larger-1067345" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LARGER">LARGER</a> than the Plains Buffalo</p><p>The <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/region-1182095" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REGION">REGION</a> makes up about a third of a band of green that extends across northern North America and into Asia.</p><p></p><p>It is also a nursery for billions of songbirds that migrate north in the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/summer-1234468" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SUMMER">SUMMER</a> from <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/wintering-7723995" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WINTERING">WINTERING</a> grounds in the US and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/beyond-390058" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BEYOND">BEYOND</a>.</p><p></p><p>"It's not just forest, it's really the matrix of forest and wetlands and waters - and we can protect those at a scale that is an opportunity lost in the rest of the world," said Dan Kraus, a conservation biologist with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC).</p></body></html> | |