Wood Buffalo National Park

Also known as Вуд Бафало

national park in Canada

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Wood Buffalo National Park is a large protected area in Canada that preserves a vast wilderness landscape. It is significant for protecting threatened wildlife species and their natural habitats within Canadian territory.

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Location: Alberta and Northwest Territories , Canada
Nearest city: Fort Chipewyan , Fort Smith
Area: 44,741 km (17,275 sq mi)
Visitors: 2399 (in 2022–23 )
Governing body: Parks Canada
Website: pc .gc .ca /en /pn-np /nt /woodbuffalo
Criteria: Natural: vii, ix, x
Inscription: 1983 (7th Session )

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Area: 4480000
Official website: pc.gc.ca/fr/pn-np/nt/woodbuffalo
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Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at 44,741 km (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.

The park ranges in elevation from 183 m (600 ft) at the Little Buffalo River to 945 m (3,100 ft) in the Caribou Mountains. The park headquarters is in Fort Smith, with a smaller satellite office in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. The park contains one of the world's largest fresh-water deltas, the Peace-Athabasca Delta, formed by the Peace, Athabasca and Birch rivers.