Taiga forest in winter, Arkhangelsk Oblast

Taiga (; ; from Turkic or Mongolian ), also known as the boreal forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces and larches.

Taiga is the world's largest land biome, and makes up 29 % of the world's forest cover ; the largest areas are located in Russia and Canada.

Taiga and tundra in the north, swampy forest in the central depression, and deciduous forest in the south are the natural vegetation in the area.

* Taiga ( Boreal forest )

This area is also known as the taiga forest, in the Taiga and Boreal forests biome.

The region lies in a transitional zone between the semi-arid Eurasian Steppe ( grasslands ) to the south and the Eurasian Taiga ( boreal forest ) to the north.

The largest forest areas of Mongolia are located around and to the north of the lake, extending the south-siberian Taiga.

Taiga near Nahanni Range Road

It is situated close to the town of Glossop in the High Peak area of the English county of Derbyshire, on the so-called Monks Road at, near the entrance track to Taiga Farm.

Image: Ikeno Taiga 001. jpg | Ike no Taiga, ( 1723 – 1776 ), Fish in Spring, Japanese

* Falco columbarius columbarius – Taiga Merlin, Tundra Merlin

* Ike no Taiga ( 1723 – 1776 )

Organic matter tends to accumulate in litter and soils of colder regions such as the boreal forests of North America and the Taiga of Russia.

), Azad Kashmir and Punjab provinces of Pakistan, Punjab, Kashmir and Ladakh of India, central-east Russia south of the Taiga, and the former Central Asian Soviet republics ( the five " Stans " of the former Soviet Union ).

province of Pakistan, Kashmir and Ladakh, central-east Russia south of the Taiga, and the former Central Asian Soviet Republics ( the five " Stans " of the former Soviet Union ).

The East Siberian taiga ecoregion, in the Taiga and Boreal forests Biome, is a very large biogeographic region in eastern Russia.

The Taiga is a Machete of Russian origin which combines the functions of machetes, axes, knives, saws, and shovels into one tool.

The Taiga is also used by military air and special forces, including Spetsnaz.

There are also numerous examples of his portrayal in a more neutral or historic framework, especially in the Taiga dramas shown on television in Japan.

Taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome.

For the Taiga Plains in Canada, growing season varies from 80 to 150 days, and in the Taiga Shield from 100 to 140 days.

Taiga soil tends to be young and poor in nutrients.

* Taiga Rescue Network ( TRN ) A network of NGOs, indigenous peoples or individuals that works to protect the boreal forests.

* Index of Boreal Forests / Taiga ecoregions at bioimages. vanderbilt. edu

* Taiga Biological Station founded by Dr. William ( Bill ) Pruitt, Jr., University of Manitoba.

Also in 2010, Herzog's documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, which portrays the life of an indigenous tribe from the Siberian part of the Taiga, had its premiere at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival.

While the coastal areas are primarily in the Hudson Plains, the northeastern coast bordering Quebec is in the Taiga Shield ecozone.

The car was also called the Lada Sport in Iceland and Lada Taiga in Austria.

At first the area was Tundra, and later changed to Taiga / Boreal Forests.

The area was that of Taiga / Boreal forests.

The 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, often hailed as the first armed anti-fascist resistance unit in occupied Europe, was formed in Croatia, in the Brezovica forest near the town of Sisak.

Capybaras are semiaquatic mammals found throughout almost all countries of South America ( except Chile ) in densely forested areas near bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers, swamps, ponds and marshes, as well as flooded savannah and along rivers in tropical forest.

The only forest in Greenland is in the Qinngua valley near Nanortalik.

Polish prisoners from Buchenwald awaiting execution in the forest near the camp

The music it makes draws all the forest creatures near to wonder at its beauty.

Afterwards, the boy lives in a " menjo " near a forest or away from the main community while they heal.

The North Island Brown Kiwi ; the Okarito Brown Kiwi ( Rowi ), whose distribution is restricted to a single site on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand ; and a third distinct population of the North Island Brown Kiwi, the Southern Tokoeka, distributed in the lowland forest to the north of Franz Josef glacier in the South Island and on Stewart Island / Rakiura, with a small population near Haast being another possibly distinct species, the Haast Tokoeka.

A tropical forest near Fond St-Denis.

The fossil habitat, near what is now the Red Sea in western Saudi Arabia, was a damp forest area between 28m and 29m years ago.

In desperation, many of these poor laborers migrated east, seeking their own land near the rain forest.

The Sava River polluted with domestic and industrial waste ; pollution of coastal waters with heavy metals and toxic chemicals ; forest damage near Koper from air pollution ( originating at metallurgical and chemical plants ) and resulting acid rain.

The highest point is at about above sea level near Bebenhausen in the Schönbuch forest, while the lowest point is in the town's eastern Neckar valley.

The cult believed that Asclepius had resurrected Hippolytus and that he lived in a sacred forest near Aricia in Latium.

Boreal forest near Shovel Point in Tettegouche State Park, along the northern shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota.

The closed canopy boreal forest in Kenozyorsky National Park near Plesetsk, Arkhangelsk Province, Russia, on average has 108 frost-free days.

* A forest fire near Silverton, Oregon destroys about one million acres ( 4, 000 km² ) of timber.

** The bodies of Portuguese opposition politician Humberto Delgado and his secretary Arajaryr Moreira de Campos are found in a forest near Villanueva del Fresno, Spain ( they were killed February 12 ).

* May 9 – A Soviet-made Il-62 airliner, operated by LOT Polish Airlines, crashes near the Kabacki forest in Poland, killing all 183 people on board.

Meanwhile the balloon came to rest atop a 60 foot dead fir tree in the forest near a local road.

Buchenwald concentration camp ( German: Konzentrationslager ( KZ ) Buchenwald, ( eng: Beechwood forest )) was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg ( Etter Mountain ) near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil.

Most Charadriiformes live near water and eat invertebrates or other small animals ; however, some are pelagic ( sea birds ), some occupy deserts and a few are found in thick forest.

Flagstaff lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau, along the western side of the largest contiguous Ponderosa Pine forest in the continental United States.

Before he was captured, Jean Valjean had already traveled near to Montfermeil and buried all the money he'd saved as M. Madeleine — a chapter tells of a worker in Montfermeil, a former Toulon convict, who claims having seen, according to a local fairy tale, the devil burying his treasure in the forest.

The name is generally considered to refer to a small forest on a hill which existed near the town.