Talk:Taiga

Taiga forest locations

Why does the article's introduction mention Japan as a place where taiga forests can be found? In the source the paragraph is referencing there is no mention of Japan or Hokkaido and the Global distribution of the Taiga and Boreal forest biome map also does not mark Japan at all

The paragraph in question for reference: The taiga or boreal forest has been called the world's largest land biome. In North America, it covers most of inland Canada, Alaska, and parts of the northern contiguous United States. In Eurasia, it covers most of Sweden, Finland, much of Russia from Karelia in the west to the Pacific Ocean (including much of Siberia), much of Norway and Estonia, some of the Scottish Highlands,[citation needed] some lowland/coastal areas of Iceland, and areas of northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, and northern Japan (on the island of Hokkaidō). 107.1.2.125 (talk) 22:22, 10 January 2024 (UTC) aswell as northern Alaska ( a state of america) and canada

Mongolia has 5% of the forest area, Russians appeared there in the 17th century and for another century the word went to European Russia. The version with a Turkic-Mongolian origin is untenable. Secret (taina in slavic) may be 1 root, suffix -ga part in the names of rivers, road in Sanskrit Матросов Дима Вологда (talk) 06:50, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

And - please remove the call for a citation to support the mention of the Scottish Highlands. It's unnecessary: the Encyc Brit source cited (for the whole sentence, at its end) refers to "the taiga in the Highlands of Scotland".

Also - is it time to try ending the page protections? They've been in place for ten years . . maybe the problem they were solving has gone away by now? (Presumably there's only one way to find out?)

2A04:B2C2:404:EA00:A0A8:5211:6285:3D95 (talk) 23:31, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Revert edit 1202651894

Please revert this edit. First of all, it was crudely done; but also it removed sourced etymology basing only on some personal guesses, see the section above. (Also: isn't it time to remove demi-protection?) 77.223.109.164 (talk) 10:26, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done M.Bitton (talk) 00:26, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Discrepancies between updated Taiga map and the article (Scotland, especially)

Scotland is mentioned in the info box as containing taiga, probably referring to the Caledonian forest. This was shown in the old, WWF data. However, the more recently published dataset, Ecoregions 2017, lists the Caledon conifer forests ecoregion as belonging to the Temperate Conifer Forest biome, instead of the Taiga biome. Should we remove Scotland from the info box, in accordance with the latest classifications, or should I revert the map to use the old WWF data again instead, showing Scotland? MBaldwinSmith (talk) 15:08, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 February 2026

Change formatting of the Nearctic region section to match the table structure of the Paleartic region section. Make it show automatically instead of having to show it manually. Lllleanna (talk) 20:30, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please detail the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Tenshi! (Talk page) 21:29, 13 February 2026 (UTC)