Posts Tagged ‘Wood Buffalo National Park’
Whooping Cranes: Step by Step, Egg by Egg, Towards Recovery
BY HIRA SHAH
The whooping crane was once widely distributed across North America, but by the 1940s, hunting and habitat loss had reduced the species to only 21 birds. Wood Buffalo National Park remains the only place in Canada where whooping cranes nest.
Read MoreDelta Dawn with the Wolves of Wood Buffalo National Park
BY ERIN MCCLOSKEY
Wood Buffalo National Park was established in 1922 to protect what remained of Canada’s wood bison. Today, exactly 100 years later, the park supports a population of approximately 3,000 bison, which coexist alongside their natural predator, the wolf. The core range of the park is quite possibly the only place where bison are wolves’ primary prey.
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