Taiga
A Taiga or Boreal Forest is a biome characterised by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. It has a subarctic climate.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Central Sikhote-Alin | "harbours representations of some of the globally most diverse and intact temperate mixed and broadleaf forests, known as the Ussuriyskaya or Ussuri Taiga" (OUV) | |
| Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake | "It is situated in the middle subzone of the taiga, at the crossroads of Fennoscandia and the Russian Plain within the watershed of the White and Baltic Seas." IUCN (AB Evaluation) | |
| Glacier parks | ||
| Golden Mountains of Altai | ||
| Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain | "where the vast Central Asian steppe meets the coniferous forests of the Siberian taiga" | |
| Gros Morne National Park | "strips of boreal forest" | |
| High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago | ||
| Lake Baikal | ||
| Laponian Area | ||
| Nahanni National Park | ||
| Pimachiowin Aki | ||
| Putorana Plateau | ||
| Uvs Nuur Basin | ||
| Virgin Komi Forests | ||
| Volcanoes of Kamchatka | ||
| West Norwegian Fjords | West Eurasian Taiga: The vegetation ranges with altitude between boreonemoral in the valleys to taiga on the plateaus. (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Wood Buffalo National Park |
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