Two people have been killed by a grizzly bear in Alberta’s Banff National Park.

Canada has until Feb. 1 to file an action plan to UNESCO about what it will do about serious, ongoing threats to Wood Buffalo National Park. The new deadline came when UNESCO World Heritage Committee approved a report that found that the place of Canada's largest national park on the World Heritage Site list is in danger.

The moose population management program in Gros Morne National Park will open on Sept. 23 and close on Jan. 28. There are three hunting zones within the park boundary with different opening dates for each zone. A fourth zone is closed to hunting.

Along the windswept northwestern coast of Newfoundland where four ancient cultures once lived off the sea’s bounty, a lone caribou grazed, indifferent to my family’s delight and seemingly safe in the knowledge that it can no longer be hunted in this protected landscape. We held up a card from Port au Choix National Historic Site that warned us to stay at least three bus lengths away from this gorgeous species at risk. There was a thumb-size rectangle cut out of the cardboard.