Taiga

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The taiga is found throughout the high northern latitudes, just below the tundra, and just above the steppes.

Taiga (IPA pronunciation: /'taɪgə/ or /taɪ 'ga/, from Mongolian) is characterized by coniferous forests. Taiga covers most of inland Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Finland, inland Norway, northern Kazakhstan and Russia (especially Siberia), as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States. The taiga is the world's largest region with forests. In Canada, boreal forest is the term used to refer to the southern part of these forests, while "taiga" is used to describe the northern areas south of the Arctic tree-line.

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Black Spruce taiga, Copper River, Alaska.

• Boreal Forests/Taiga (WWF)
• Terraformers Canadian Taiga Conservation Foundation
• Arctic and Taiga (Canadian Geographic)
• Coniferous Forest. Earth Observatory. NASA. [1].
• Taiga Rescue Network (TRN) A network of NGOs, indigenous peoples or individuals that works to protect the boreal forests.
• Index of Boreal Forests/Taiga ecoregions at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu
• The Nature Conservancy and its partners work to protect the Canadian Boreal Forest
• Slater museum of natural history: Taiga