Forest fire happens naturally, and then the forest regenerates. So it’s all part of the natural system.” A mountain pine beetle crawls on the bark of a pine tree. (Antonia Musso/provided) ...

Since the early 1990s, the mountain pine beetle has attacked about 18 million hectares of forest, including half of the total volume of commercial lodgepole pine in British Columbia, according to ...

Canada’s vast boreal forests are under attack. The enemy is the pine beetle which is destroying many millions of trees in British Columbia and Alberta and spreading eastward.

By analysing over 1,000 hours of footage, the team have been able to confirm that pine martens are not only present but that they have settled right across the New Forest.

Mountain pine beetles have affected more than 180,000 square kilometres of B.C. forests. (Ward Strong/B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations) ...

"In total, about 860 species were recorded during the surveys, including 370 animals, 265 plants, and 225 fungi,’ explained Prof Russell Wynn, Director of Wild New Forest.