The Boreal Information Centre
Spotlight
The Last Great Intact Forests of Canada
The Boreal Information Centre is hosting Global Forest Watch Canada’s Atlas of Alberta: The Last Great Intact Forests of Canada. The Atlas shows Alberta’s last intact forest landscapes and looks at some of their key conservation values, as well as key indicators of threats to their future conservation. Read more.
Recent Blog Posts
Sharing, Interpreting and Visualizing
One of the most pervasive barriers to conservation effectiveness has always been the lack of capacity in our community for easily sharing, interpreting, and visualizing complex ecological information, and our stories have suffered for it. In subsidizing the development of Data Basin™, our primary goal was to help Wilburforce grantees share their data easily and more effectively – to provide the latest technology and help foster more of those aha! moments when maps overlay to illustrate and...
Featured Blogger
Joel Clement, Program Officer for the Conservation Science Program, is an ecologist with a background in biodiversity studies and environmental policy. Prior to coming to the Foundation, Joel was an independent consultant and contributed to research and conservation programs in Alaska, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominica, Madagascar, and the Pacific Northwest. He has received support from the National Geographic Society for biodiversity field research in Chile and was featured in National Geographic Magazine for his field...
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- A new improved and updated #NetMap tool set and a new #watershed databases is now available for download http://bit.ly/cQ0J72 #mapping #GIS — 4 days 14 hours ago
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About The Boreal Information Centre
The Boreal Information Centre is a collaborative effort of a numerous groups and organizations (Centre partners), and is guided by an advisory group of natural resource and conservation professionals. The Boreal Information Centre is an information warehouse offering geospatial datasets and summaries to aide in land-use and conservation planning of the North American boreal forest biome. The Centre provides objective, high-quality data and information to support users in making policy and management decisions to protect the ecological integrity of the North American boreal forest forest. Read more.
Boreal Content in Data Basin
Maps
- Intact Landscapes of Alberta
- Land Use Allocation and Native American Land
- Historic First Nations Treaties in Canada
- Tongass National Forest Road Development and Clearcuts
Datasets
- First Nations Communities in Canada
- British Columbia Sensitive Ecosystems
- Forest Production Mills of Canada
- Coastal Temperate Rainforest – Remaining Late Seral Forest Fragments
Projects
- First Nations Settled and Unsettled Land Claims in Canada
- Oil Sands Impacts
- TNC Canada Ecoregional Portfolio
- Canada Lynx Conservation Plan
People
- Peter Lee, Global Forest Watch Canada
- Aran O’Carroll, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
- Evie Witten, The Nature Conservancy
- Andrew Harcombe, Nature Conservancy Canada
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Data Basin would like to acknowledge the following advisors: |
Jim Strittholt, Conservation Biology Institute |
Glen Dunsworth, Forest Products Association of Canada |
