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Wood Buffalo National Park

National Park

Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park in Canada, covering 44,741 square kilometres across northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories, an area larger than Switzerland and the second largest national park in the world. Established in 1922 to protect the world's largest herd of free-roaming wood bison, the park's bison population became hybridized after plains bison were later introduced alongside them, and today numbers roughly 3,000 animals. The park is also one of only two known nesting sites anywhere for the whooping crane, one of the rarest crane species on Earth.

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Classification
Governance Type
Governance by Government 1
Realm
Terrestrial 1
International Designation
UNESCO World Heritage Site 1
Designation Category
II 1
Area (sq km)
44,741 1
Governing Body
Parks Canada 1
Governing Body
Governing Body (category)
Parks Canada 1
FAQs

Why is Wood Buffalo National Park on the World Heritage List?

Its wild bison, its whooping crane nesting ground and a very large inland delta.

UNESCO describes the park as home to North America's largest population of wild bison and as the natural nesting place of the whooping crane. It also names the park's world's largest inland delta, at the mouth of the Peace and Athabasca rivers, as another of its attractions. Those three features, the bison, the cranes and the delta, are what the World Heritage listing highlights.
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Alberta, States or Territories

Wood Buffalo National Park spans northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories.

Source Wood Buffalo National Park (Wikipedia)
Canada, Countries

Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park in Canada.

Source Wood Buffalo National Park (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Wood Buffalo National Park (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Infobox, iucn_category
    II
  • Infobox, area_km2
    44,741
  • Source text, realm: terrestrial
    Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at 44,741 km2 (17,275 sq mi).
  • Infobox: governing_body
    Parks Canada
  • wikipedia lead/infobox, international-designation unesco-world-heritage-site
    This area was designated in 1983 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for the biological diversity of the Peace-Athabasca Delta, and for the population of wild bison.
  • Associated With: Canada, Lead section
    Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at 44,741 km2 (17,275 sq mi).
  • Associated With: Alberta, Lead section
    Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at 44,741 km2 (17,275 sq mi). It is in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories.
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Wikidata: Wood Buffalo National Park
  • Wikidata Q391338, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Part Of: Canada, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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Wikidata: Canada
On Continent: North America, Wikidata item for Canada, property P30 (continent)View the Source
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