The Numbers
– Amount of carbon Canada’s boreal
forest can store: 186 billion tonnes.
– Annual global carbon dioxide
emissions: 6.8 billion tonnes.
– Number of scientists who signed a
letter urging protection of the
boreal forest: 1,500.
– Number of countries urging
protection of Canada’s boreal
forest: 50.
– Size of Canada’s Boreal forest:
566.6 million hectares.
– Percentage of the forest that is
protected: 10.
– Amount scientists believe should
be protected: 50.
– Percentage of Canada’s boreal forest
held by the Crown: 98.
– Carrier pigeon’s estimated population
in 1814: 3 million.
– Carrier pigeon’s population
in 1914: 1.
– Estimated percentage of global species
that would die off if the Earth’s tem-
perature rose four degrees Celsius: 40.
– Warmest temperature recorded in
Whitehorse in April, 2007: 11.7 C.
– Coldest temperature recorded in
Whitehorse last month: -20.9 C.
– Average daily low for April: -4.5 C.
Average low this April: -4.6 C.
– Total precipitation in April: 1.0 mm.
– Average precipitation in April:
7.0 mm. (RM)