Canada: Ontario to Protect Forest
The Ontario provincial government said it would conserve a huge swath of the province's boreal forest to protect polar bears and other animals and help fight climate change. The plan would permanently protect an area that represents 43 percent of Ontario's land mass and is nearly the size of the United Kingdom. The goal is to make sure that forestry and mining do not destroy the northern forest's pristine ecosystems, and to protect polar bears, caribou, wolverines and other animals from climate change