Taiga

Description (source Wikipedia)

“Taiga generally referred to in North America as boreal forest or snow forest is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. The taiga or boreal forest is the world's largest land biome.”

“Taiga, also called a boreal forest, biome (major life zone) of vegetation composed primarily of cone-bearing needle-leaved or scale-leaved evergreen trees, found in northern circumpolar forested regions characterized by long winters and moderate to high annual precipitation.” (www.britannica.com)

We know little about it since it is extremely difficult to overview and learn about this stupendous environment. Marked with silence and space, green and cold, thriving with life, the taiga is always mysterious for us.

What is well known, is its benefit for the world’s climate and in the final line-our survival. 

Unfortunately every year, it burns and these fires are induced by humans. Why?

By burning taiga, the industrial setup has open space for their work and digging “valuable” sources-not paying attention to anything left behind. We then have more power sources- nonrenewable and spendable for a short time and usually wasted pointless. At what price? By giving up on our luxurious way of life or choosing other ways (renewable power, using our strengths and learning every day about better ways and implementing them to our lives), we give chances to nature to recover. 

What is happening with wildlife and how it affects the environment in all? We noticed massive movements of animals when the fire is moving in one direction but when it circulates, animals are trapped and their bodies burned leave an additional carbon footprint. Soil suffers devastating destruction and it takes a lot of time to be fertile. Northern animals have less offspring in comparison with those in a mild climate so this is additional difficulty to fight. Among those born, just a few survive so fires damage wild word in unimaginable levels...There’s simply not enough time to recover. Yet it seems that humans don’t give that time to anything and anyone-and in the final line-they take time from themselves.

We know so much about it today, yet it seems that stopping fires became very difficult. After a decade or less, the importance of taiga will become very visible on an everyday level, with severely disturbed climate and less soil-there will be fewer resources for survival-air, nutrition, disrupted will be the food chain and natural cycles of every kind.

Learn about new solutions and use them. There is no need to give up things you love but only to change ways for the better, from every perspective.