Vital Forests Film Series

Explore the Island's Hidden Forest Ecosystems.

The goal of each of these four short films is to guide the viewer through an exploration of one of our Island's unique and almost forgotten forest ecosystems. Coastal, Wetland, Riparian and Upland forests, are each critical ecologies providing habitat for endangered and threatened wildlife and refuges for rare speices of flora. Throughout each film resident ecologists, biologists and conservationists provide insight into each ecosystems special importance and the challenges they face in our changing climate and as a result of our human actions. We hope you are inspired and discover that this Island that we call home has a profoundly diverse and vital natural world living all around you.

Our work on Krummholz is funded by A PEI Forested Landscape Priority Place Project.

The Project

PEI’s coastal forests are an at-risk, diverse, and complex ecosystem. This project seeks to develop a better understanding of krummholz and the roles they play in our island environment. Krummholz are integral to the protection of our coasts, as well as providing habitat for a wide variety of species. Instead of seeing these areas as wastelands that serve no purpose, we intend to understand their true values. They provide wildlife habitat, store carbon, help slow erosion, and make it possible to grow less-hardy trees that would not survive without their protection.