Posted by Jacob Scherr
Protecting and restoring the world's rainforests is critical to preserve biodiversity. Tropical forests are teeming with life - covering just about 6% of the earth's surface they are home to between half and three fourth of all plant and...continued→
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
The Heart of the Boreal Forest is a breathtaking expanse of woodlands, marshes and over 1.5 million lakes straddling the border between the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, Canada. The forest is a haven for caribou, wolves and wolverines, great...continued→
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In August, I was able to spend a week in the Tongass National Forest with a NRDC group led by our Founding Director John Adams. Spanning 17 million acres of southeast Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is the largest forest...continued→
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
NRDC's President, Frances Beinecke, traveled last July to the Peace-Athabasca Delta BioGem in Alberta, Canada. She wrote in her blog about the visit that: All four major bird flyways in North America converge in one spot in the boreal, right...continued→
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Bristol Bay in Alaska is NRDC's newest BioGem. The Bay's watershed sits on the eastern-most arm of the Bering Sea, about 200 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Its massive salmon runs provide food for grizzlies, wolves, eagles, beluga whales and...continued→
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
One of the planet's last truly wild frontiers, the America's Arctic BioGem is a landscape of dramatic mountain ranges, frozen tundra, and ice-sheets. It is home to remarkable species capable of enduring the harshest conditions, like the polar bear, caribou,...continued→
Posted by Jacob Scherr in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Eight years ago, I helped launch NRDC's BioGems Initiative to protect threatened special natural places throughout the Americas - ranging from the Alaska's Arctic to Chile's Patagonia. We have worked very hard to ensure that these treasured wildlands — and...continued→
