Death Of A Forest - Pine Beetles kill millions of trees in US & Canada - Wild Visions, Inc

With global warming evident in many places around the world, the forest of North America are undergoing huge changes. The pine beetle and pine trees have co-evolved together and until the past 2-3 decades, the numbers of beetles have been kept in check by very cold winters that would kill the beetles, thus limiting their lifespan and ability to reproduce. However, with warmer temperatures during the winters, the beetles are surviving in astounding numbers and are killing the forests of the western US and Canada. To date millions of acres of forests and billions of trees are dead and there is no end in sight. Some estimates predict that by 2013, 80% of the North American forests could be gone. In addition, we are losing forests that otherwise provide a carbon sink for our production of greenhouse gases, and as the trees die, they emit more Carbon Dioxide back into the atmosphere. Nothing, except very cold winter weather, will stop the beetles. www.wildvisions.net

This video was a Finalist at the prestigious Jackson Hole Film Festival which sponsored the United Nations Year of the Forest Film Festival for 2011.

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[leonghoticus]

LORRY TRUKK AIR LINE BILION CARSS MOTOO KILL BLUE PLANET ! NOTHING TO DO !

[Alloydiv]

Pine beetles my eye...it's pollution. Pines are dying all over the world.

[anthonybarrett79]

FORSET FIRES SORT OUT BEETLE KILL

[397drsafiullah]

so what is the solution? there must be some solution! squirells?any beetle viral diseases to which specifically these beetles are not immune?gene therapy/mutant beetles? development or recruitment of alternative/same trees resistant to beetles? do nt kill me, i loved canada,and am processing immigration,bcz i loved boreals!!!!!!!