The Inland Temperate Rainforest and its Mountain Caribou are found nowhere else in the world but in the Interior Wetbelt of British Columbia, also known as the Inland Rainforest Region. Their fates, and those of many small species of plants and animals, are intertwined with the old-growth Interior Cedar-Hemlock forests that cloak the valley bottoms and slopes of rugged mountains. These forests are now yielding more newly discovered species than any other forest on Earth,
due in part to research funded by the Valhalla Wilderness Society, and in part due to the independent efforts of scientists to document this threatened biodiversity before it is destroyed by clearcut logging.
