What is Wood Buffalo National Park?
[[File:Wood-Buffalo-NP Pine Lake 98-07-03.jpg|thumb|Pine Lake in Wood Buffalo National Park]] '''Wood Buffalo National Park''' is a [[national park]] and the largest one in [[Canada]]. The park is in northeastern [[Alberta]] and southern [[Northwest Territories]]. It was named as a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]] in 1983 because of its [[biological diversity]]. The Peace-Athabasca Delta is one of the world's largest [[river delta|freshwater deltas]], as well as having a population of wild [[bison]]. Inside the park is the only natural nesting habitat for the endangered [[whooping crane]]. The park is also populated by [[moose]], [[wood bison]], [[black bear]], [[wolf]], [[lynx]], [[beaver]], [[brown bear]], [[snowshoe hare]], [[sandhill crane]], [[ruffed grouse]], and the world's northernmost population of [[red-sided garter snake]]s. ==Other websites== {{commonscat}} *[http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/nt/woodbuffalo/index.aspx Wood Buffalo National Park]; Parks Canada *[http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/256 Wood Buffalo National Park]; UNESCO {{WHSite}} {{World Heritage Sites in Canada}} {{National parks of Canada}} {{Canada-stub}} [[Category:Geography of British Columbia]] [[Category:Geography of the Northwest Territories]] [[Category:National parks in Canada]] [[Category:Dark-sky preserves]] [[Category:World Heritage Sites in Canada]]