What Is Being Done?
Many laws have been enacted by the governments for the conservation of endangered animals in Taiga. Orders prohibiting logging, mining, and oil and gas production in the region have been issued to protect the endangered animals.In February 2010 the Canadian government established protection for 13,000 square kilometers of boreal forest by creating a new 10,700 square kilometer park reserve in the Mealy Mountains area of eastern Canada and a 3,000 square kilometer waterway provincial park that follows alongside the Eagle River from headwaters to sea.Two Canadian provincial governments, Ontario and Quebec, introduced measures in 2008 that would protect at least half of their northern boreal forest. Although both provinces admitted it will take years to plan, work with Aboriginal and local communities and ultimately map out precise boundaries of the areas off-limits to development, the measures are expected to create some of the largest protected areas networks in the world once completed. Both announcements came the following year after a letter signed by 1,500 scientists called on political leaders to protect at least half of the boreal forest.