Wood Buffalo National Park
Wood Buffalo National Park is a national park and the largest one in Canada. The park is in northeastern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories.
It was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 because of its biological diversity. The Peace-Athabasca Delta is one of the world's largest freshwater deltas, as well as having a population of wild bison.
Inside the park is the only natural nesting habitat for the endangered whooping crane. The park is also populated by moose, wood bison, black bear, wolf, lynx, beaver, brown bear, snowshoe hare, sandhill crane, ruffed grouse, and the world's northernmost population of red-sided garter snakes.
Wood Buffalo National Park Media
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Plains bison were transferred here from Buffalo National Park in the 1920s, but they carried disease and hybridized with the wood bison, causing their numbers to drop.
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Location and extent of the park (dark green)
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Wood Buffalo (Bison bison athabascae) in Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada
Marmot (Marmota monax) in Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada
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American white pelicans at Rapids of the Drowned (Slave River)
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Beaver’s Lodge in Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada
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- Wood Buffalo National Park; Parks Canada
- Wood Buffalo National Park; UNESCO
