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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 ]
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (abbreviated RMWB) [5] [6] is a specialized municipality in northeast Alberta, Canada.It is the largest regional municipality in Canada by area (105650.88km2 | this number includes Wood Buffalo Nation Park of Canada) [7] and is home to oil sand deposits known as the Athabasca oil sands.
By 1957, wood bison were thought to have been finally extinct in Canada due to hybridization with the plains bison, which took place in Wood Buffalo National Park between 1925 and 1928. [ 8 ] As wood bison species became threatened with the hybridization, relocation and breeding conservation programs specific to wood bison were established in 1963.
Wood–plains hybrids are generally called "Parkland bison". [34] As below-mentioned, disease-free and genetically unique populations of wood bison have been discovered in recent years. If these populations had little or no contacts with bison from Wood Buffalo National Park, there is a possibility that there are surviving pure wood bison.
Improvement District No. 24, or Improvement District No. 24 (Wood Buffalo), [4] is an improvement district in Alberta, Canada.Coextensive with the portion of Wood Buffalo National Park in northeast Alberta, the improvement district provides local governance for lands within the park that are not within Indian reserves.
A wood buffalo is another name for a wood bison. Wood buffalo may also refer to: Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada; Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, a specialized municipality in northern Alberta, Canada; Wood Buffalo National Park, a bison reserve in Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada
Fort McMurray (/ m ə k ˈ m ʌr i / mək-MURR-ee) is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. [10] [11] It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significant role in the development of the national petroleum industry.
It is owned by the government of Canada, and is administered by Parks Canada with some input from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Encompassing the northeastern portion of Wood Buffalo National Park, about 2,300 km 2 (14%) of the wetland is external to the park, on Crown land in the Northwest Territories.