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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Wood Buffalo National Park' has mentioned 'Park' in the following places:
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| [3] The park was established in 1922 to protect the world's largest herd of free roaming [4] wood bison. | WIKI |
| The park ranges in elevation from 183xc2xa0m (600xc2xa0ft) at the Little Buffalo River to 945xc2xa0m (3,100xc2xa0ft) in the Caribou Mountains. | WIKI |
| The park headquarters is located in Fort Smith, with a smaller satellite office in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. | WIKI |
| The park contains one of the world's largest fresh water deltas, the Peace-Athabasca Delta, formed by the Peace, Athabasca and Birch rivers. | WIKI |
| It is also known for its karst sinkholes in the north-eastern section of the park. | WIKI |
| The designation helps preserve nighttime ecology for the park's large populations of bats, night hawks and owls, as well as providing opportunities for visitors to experience the northern lights. | 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 |
| Before the park[edit] | WIKI |
| These languages are common also among the peoples in the regions to the north and west of the park, who call themselves the "Dene" collectively. | WIKI |
| In 1788 English colonists established fur trading posts at Fort Chipewyan, just east of the current boundaries of the park, and Fort Vermilion close to the west. | WIKI |
| Location and extent of the park (dark green) | WIKI |
| Established in 1922, the park was created on Crown land acquired the territory of Treaty 8 between Canada and the local First Nations. | WIKI |
| The park completely surrounds several Indian reserves such as Peace Point and xcax94ejxc3xabre Kxe2x80x99elnxc4xb1 Kuxc4x99xccx81 (also called Hay Camp). | 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 |
| [12] Since that time park official have tried to undo this damage, making successive culls of diseased animals. | 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 |
| The Mikisew Cree First Nation had first proposed protecting this land as a park. | WIKI |
| The park was created after three oil companies: Teck Resources, Cenovus Energy, and Imperial Oil, voluntarily gave up certain oilsands and mining leases in the area, following negotiations with the Alberta government and indigenous groups. | WIKI |
| In June 2019, UNESCO expressed concerns about the management of the park's ecological health and indigenous usage, noting decline in water quality. | WIKI |
| It warned the park that it could be delisted from the World Heritage List if conditions deteriorated too much. | WIKI |
| UNESCO questioned the plan and has not lifted the potential delisting of the park. | WIKI |
| The World Heritage Committee will review Canada's report and plan for preserving the park in 2021. | WIKI |
| In the park, summers are very short, but days are long. | 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 |
| Cougars, feral horses, and muskoxes have been recorded within and in the vicinity of the park. | WIKI |
| Wood Buffalo Park contains the only natural nesting habitat for the endangered whooping crane. | WIKI |
| In 2007, the world's largest beaver dam xe2x80x93 about 850-metre (2,790xc2xa0ft) in length xe2x80x93 was discovered in the park using satellite imagery. | 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 |
| But a 1995 study detected that there have been notable differences in morphology among each herd within the park, which have developed different degrees of hybridization. | WIKI |
| The parkxe2x80x99s huge tracts of boreal forest also provide crucial habitat for a diverse range of other species, including the endangered whooping crane. | UNESCO |
| The continued evolution of a large inland delta, salt plains and gypsum karst add to the parkxe2x80x99s uniqueness. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (x): Wood Buffalo National Park contains the only breeding habitat in the world for the whooping crane, an endangered species brought back from the brink of extinction through careful management of the small number of breeding pairs in the park. | UNESCO |
| The parkxe2x80x99s size (4.5 million ha), complete ecosystems and protection are essential for in-situ conservation of the whooping crane. | UNESCO |
| The size of the park allows for the protection of entire ecosystems and the ecosystem features that are the basis for the parkxe2x80x99s Outstanding Universal Value. | UNESCO |
| The parkxe2x80x99s size, remoteness, very low human population density and the absence of resource extraction activities minimize human-related stress within the property, resulting in a high level of integrity. | UNESCO |
| Bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis are present within the wood bison population in and around the park. | UNESCO |
| The actual and potential impact on the delta from stressors originating outside the park, such as flow regulation, water withdrawals, industrial discharge and climate change, is monitored by the park and by working in collaboration with a network of partners to monitor and manage impacts from upstream development. | UNESCO |
| The Canada National Parks Act provides effective legal protection for the park. | UNESCO |
| Under the requirements of the legislation, a park management plan was approved in June 2010 and provides direction for protecting the features of the park that are the basis for its Outstanding Universal Value, and for providing opportunities for visitors to experience and learn about the park. | UNESCO |
| The parkxe2x80x99s two largest wetlands (the Peace-Athabasca Delta and the whooping crane nesting area) have also been declared Wetlands of International Importance under the RAMSAR convention. | UNESCO |
| Park managers work with 11 Aboriginal groups for whom Wood Buffalo National Park is an area of significant cultural value to cooperatively manage the park, as each group carries out traditional harvesting and other cultural activities within the park boundaries. | UNESCO |
| Park staff also work with Environment Canada, international crane preservation groups and U.S. government agencies to ensure the long term viability of the parkxe2x80x99s whooping crane flock. | UNESCO |
| Park staff closely monitors upstream development on the major rivers that flow into the park and work closely with local Aboriginal partners, other government agencies, stakeholders and industry to maintain the ecological integrity of Wood Buffalo National Park. | UNESCO |
| The park management plan commits park managers to developing an Area Management Plan for the Peace-Athabasca Delta to address the challenges of managing the deltaxe2x80x99s ecological and cultural values in cooperation with partners and stakeholders. | UNESCO |