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Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at 44,741 km 2 (17,275 sq mi). [3] It is in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories . Larger in area than Switzerland , [ 4 ] it is the second-largest national park in the world. [ 5 ]
Between 1925 and 1928, 6,673 plains bisons, compared to 1,500–2,000 wood bisons, were translocated from Buffalo National Park into the Wood Buffalo National Park by the Government of Canada, to avoid mass culling because of overpopulation, [29] despite protests from conservation biologists.
Wind Cave National Park: South Dakota: National Park Service: 400 Wolakota Buffalo Range: South Dakota: Rosebud Economic Development Corporation: 100 Wood Buffalo National Park: Alberta and Northwest Territories: Parks Canada: 3000 Yellowstone National Park: Idaho, Montana, Wyoming: National Park Service: 4800 Commercial herds are not included.
The Wood Buffalo Park bison were determined to actually be crossbreeds between plains and wood bison, but their predominant genetic makeup was that of the expected "wood buffalo". [9] However, the Yellowstone Park bison herd was pure plains bison, and not any of the other previously suggested subspecies.
Although colloquially referred to as a buffalo in the United States and Canada, [2] it is only distantly related to the true buffalo. The North American species is composed of two subspecies, the Plains bison, B. b. bison, and the wood bison, B. b. athabascae, which is the namesake of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada.
In 1909, Buffalo National Park in Alberta was established with a herd of 300 plains bison. By 1916 more than 2,000 bison lived in the park, which was now overpopulated. As a result, many were moved to Wood Buffalo National Park in north-eastern Alberta (est. 1922).
Meanwhile, the wild crane population began a steady increase, such that in 2007 the Canadian Wildlife Service counted 266 birds at Wood Buffalo National Park, with 73 mating pairs that produced 80 chicks, 39 of which completed the fall migration, [55] while a United States Fish and Wildlife Service count in early 2017 estimated that 505 ...
On May 24, 1982, it was designated a Ramsar wetland of international importance, [2] one of two such sites in Wood Buffalo National Park (the other is Peace-Athabasca Delta). It is owned by the government of Canada, and is administered by Parks Canada with some input from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.