Wood Buffalo National Park

Wood Buffalo National Park And Its Wildlife Confronted By Numerous Threats

Size alone cannot be expected to buffer national parks and protected areas from human impacts. That's evident at Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park, a 17,275-square-mile preserve threatened by energy development, hydropower projects, agricultural practices, and municipal expansion.

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By Kurt Repanshek - July 23rd, 2018 2:00am

UNESCO Team Cites Variety Of Threats To Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park

A variety of threats, from dam building to oil sands development, pose significant danger to the health of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 14th, 2017 2:00am

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Canada Trimming Size Of Wood Buffalo National Park

Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada's largest national park at 17,300 square miles, will shrink a bit to allow creation of an Indian Reserve.

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By NPT Staff - June 21st, 2016 2:30am

Canada’s 2016 Budget Makes Big Investment In Parks

While the U.S. is celebrating a century of the National Park Service this year, Canada has an anniversary of its own coming up, and its parks and visitors are set to benefit during the country’s 150th anniversary in 2017.

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By NPT Staff - March 30th, 2016 2:00am

Birding In The National Parks: Working To Build Whooper Populations

It’s a safe bet that not too many travelers reading this post have visited Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park. It’s Canada’s largest park and one of the largest national parks in the world at nearly five times the area of Yellowstone, but to say it’s a thirty-hour drive northeast of Seattle is an understatement of its remoteness.

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By Kirby Adams - January 26th, 2016 3:30am

The Wolves And Bison Of Wood Buffalo National Park

The list of national parks on my "bucket list" is somewhat long, and not restricted to those in the United States. I've long been intrigued by Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta, and a recent PBS documentary on the wolves and bison there only heightened my desire to check that one off my list.

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By Kurt Repanshek - December 27th, 2013 3:30am

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