🌲 Wood Buffalo National Park

Canada · Americas · National Park · 59.38°N, 112.98°W

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. Larger in area than Switzerland, it is the second-largest national park in the world. The park was established in 1922 to protect the world's largest herd of free-roaming wood bison. They became hybridized after the introduction of plains bison. The population is currently estimated at 3,000. It is one of two known nesting sites of whooping cranes.

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Quick facts

Country	Canada
Continent / region	Americas
Protection type	🌲 National Park
Coordinates (approx.)	59.38°N, 112.98°W · view on map

Wood Buffalo National Park is a national park in Canada, in Americas. The details of why Wood Buffalo National Park is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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