Boreal forests and taiga
From Turkish origins the world Taiga means “coniferous forests- Taiga, or boreal forest is an ecosystem covering some 12 million km² in the subarctic belt of northern Eurasia and North America located just south of the arctic tundra and featured largely by coniferous forests dominated by firs and spruces rooted in a formerly glaciated area with patches of permanent frozen underground (permafrost.
