Northern Cordillera forests

Northern Cordillera forests
Northern Cordillera forests
	Coniferous forest and deciduous shrubs along the Stewart–Cassiar Highway near Good Hope Lake
Ecology
Realm	Nearctic
Biome	Boreal forests/taiga
Borders	List Alaska-St. Elias Range tundra; Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests; Central British Columbia Mountain forests; Interior Yukon-Alaska alpine tundra; Muskwa-Slave Lake forests; Northern transitional alpine forests; Northwest Territories taiga; Ogilvie-MacKenzie alpine tundra; Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra; Yukon Interior dry forests;
Bird species	165
Mammal species	55
Geography
Area	262,884 km2 (101,500 sq mi)
Country	Canada
Provinces/territories	British Columbia, Northwest Territories, and Yukon
Climate type	Subarctic
Conservation
Conservation status	Vulnerable
Habitat loss	0%
Protected	11.6%

Northern Cordillera forests is a taiga ecoregion that extends across the northern interior of British Columbia, southern Yukon, and a small area of the Northwest Territories as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system.