Thirty per cent of all trees are in the so-called boreal ecosystem, a circle of mostly coniferous trees, ranging from Europe and Asia to North America.
Their mission turned into eight very different journeys, to Norway, Scotland, Canada, Japan, Alaska and Russia..
For Borealis, photographer Jeroen Toirkens and journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius travelled to these forests, looking for the stories of the people living there.
Still, less than twelve per cent of these forests are protected.
Over a span of 100 years, an average tree produces enough oxygen to allow a single person to breathe for twenty years.
These boreal forests, also referred to as taiga, convert massive amounts of CO² into oxygen.
Thirty per cent of all trees are in the so-called boreal ecosystem, a circle of mostly coniferous trees, ranging from Europe and Asia to North America
