The world’s last remaining “pristine” forest – the boreal forest – is under increasing threat across large stretches of Russia, Canada and other northern countries, a team of international researchers has found. The researchers have called for the urgent preservation of existing boreal forests in order to secure biodiversity and prevent the loss of this major global carbon sink.

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