Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park in Canada, established in 1922 to protect the world's largest herd of free roaming Wood Bison. Plains bison were shipped to the park from Wainwright, Alberta, between 1925 and 1928. Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest National Park of Canada at 44,807 km 2 (17,300 sq mi). National Bison Range Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Final Record of Decision. Wood Buffalo National Park is an outstanding example of ongoing ecological and biological processes, encompassing some of the largest undisturbed grass and sedge meadows left in North America, and it sustains the world’s largest herd of wood bison, a threatened species. Wood Buffalo National Park, park in northern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories, Canada, between Athabasca and Great Slave lakes. The imported bison promptly moved south of the …

Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo A 2016 study by Unesco researchers warned that the pace and complexity of industrial development around the park … Fish and Wildlife Service, as part of its ongoing efforts to plan for the future of the National Bison Range, announces the availability of the national wildlife refuge’s final Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) and final Record of Decision (ROD). Their population is currently estimated at more than 5,000. Wood Buffalo National Park was created in 1922 to protect the last remaining herds of wood bison in northern Canada. It has an area of 17,300 sq mi (44,807 sq km) and was established in 1922 as a refuge to protect the few remaining bison …

Elk Island National Park of Canada protects the wilderness of the aspen parkland, one of the most endangered habitats in Canada. An aerial view of Wood Buffalo national park.

The U.S. It is also the only known nesting site of whooping cranes. Bison are considered a pillar of ecosystem health, providing numerous benefits to nature and other animals. The main factor limiting recovery of the wood bison in the NWT is the presence of the exotic bovine diseases brucellosis and tuberculosis in the Great Wood Buffalo National Park population, and the management actions that must be taken as a result to prevent movement of the diseases to other bison … The park was established in 1922 to protect the world's largest herd of free roaming wood bison, currently estimated at more than 5,000. It is located in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories.Larger in area than Switzerland, it is the second-largest national park in the world. The park is also renowned for it's birdwatching opportunities, with over 250 species of birds. Plains provide habitat for bison, wood bison, moose, deer, and elk. The Wood Bison is a distinct northern subspecies of the North American Bison.