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UNESCO Calls For Action On Threats To Wood Buffalo 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.

In Search Of Wood Buffalo's Northern Lights And Whooping Cranes

Wood Buffalo National Park is Canada's largest national park at 44,807 square kilometres, straddling the border of the Northwest Territories and Alberta. It’s smaller than the U.S.’s largest park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, but bigger than Switzerland. The park is the world’s largest Dark Sky Preserve and it has a beaver dam so large it’s visible from space.
  • By Anonymous - August 1st, 2024 1:24am

Indigenous Community Hopes For Research Hub By Wood Buffalo National Park

The Mikisew Cree First Nation hopes Parks Canada will help fund an environmental research and monitoring institute based in Fort Chipewyan. Director of government and industry relations Melody Levine says there will eventually be a naming contest, but for now the project is going by various names including the Peace-Athabasca Delta Institute or the Delta Institute for short.
PDF icon 2020 Indigenous State of Conservation Report

Wood Buffalo National Park Gets Funding To Fight Threats

Canada has pledged an extra $59.9 million towards a 142-item action plan to help save Wood Buffalo National Park from external threats like nearby hydropower dams, oil sands activity and climate change. But a State of Conservation report was filed late to UNESCO in December and environmental and Indigenous groups are still waiting to hear exactly how the money will be allocated in a bid to keep the park off a list of global World Heritage Sites in danger.
PDF icon Report on the State of Conservation of Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site (December 2020)

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