Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Wood Buffalo National Park' has mentioned 'Bison' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| They became hybridized after the introduction of plains bison. | WIKI |
| This area was designated in 1983 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for the biological diversity of the Peace-Athabasca Delta, and for the population of wild bison. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 1.1 Before the park 1.2 As a national park 2 Climate 3 Wildlife 3.1 Hybrid bison 4 Transportation 5 Gallery 6 See also 7 References 8 External links | WIKI |
| See also: History of bison conservation in Canada | WIKI |
| Plains bison were transferred here from Buffalo National Park in the 1920s, but they carried disease and hybridized with the wood bison, causing their numbers to drop. | WIKI |
| Despite protests from biologists, between 1925 and 1928 the government relocated nearly 6,700 plains bison here from Buffalo National Park, in order to avoid unwanted mass culling at the latter park due to over-population there. | WIKI |
| [11] The plains bison hybridized with the local 1,500-2,000 wood bison, and carried such diseases as bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis, which they introduced into the wood bison herd. | WIKI |
| In 1965, 23 of these bison were relocated to the south side of Elk Island National Park. | WIKI |
| Between 1951 and 1967, 4000 bison were killed and 2,000,000 pounds (910xc2xa0t) of meat were sold from a special abattoir built at Hay Camp. | WIKI |
| In 1990 the government announced a plan to destroy the entire herd and restock the park with disease-free bison from Elk Island National Park. | WIKI |
| Wood Buffalo National Park contains a large variety of wildlife species, including red fox, bison, moose, great grey owls, black bears, hawks, timber wolves, lynxes, beavers, snowy owls, marmots, bald eagles, martens, wolverines, peregrine falcons, whooping cranes, snowshoe hares, sandhill cranes, ruffed grouses, and the world's northernmost population of red-sided garter snakes, which form communal dens within the park. | WIKI |
| Hybrid bison[edit] | WIKI |
| As above-mentioned, "wood bison" in the park are hybrid descendants, the product of unions with plains bison that were transferred to the park in the 1920s from Buffalo National Park. | WIKI |
| The plains bison were more numerous and were found to have been carrying diseases that became established among the bison in the park. | WIKI |
| They are more true to the original types than the preserved herds at Elk Island National Park and Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary. | WIKI |