Even a global pandemic couldn’t knock Banff National Park off the top of the list of Canada’s most visited national parks. Rouge National Urban Park saw more visitors than ever before as urbanites looked for quick and close outdoor escapes. And a Quebec island that once served as a quarantine station for new immigrants, and is now a national historic site, enjoyed a summer surge in popularity.

Kootenay National Park is getting new, permanent emergency satellite phone services for motorists travelling along Highway 93 South.

As mountain pine beetles turn the forests around Jasper National Park red, Parks Canada staff are fighting back to protect the town from wildfire threats and the forests from the harmful pests.

Not quite a decade after agreeing whitebark pines were a species in need of Endangered Species Act protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now is proposing to list the iconic trees as threatened under the act.