Wildlife

Canada has pledged an extra $59.9 million towards a 142-item action plan to help save Wood Buffalo National Park from external threats like nearby hydropower dams, oil sands activity and climate change. But a State of Conservation report was filed late to UNESCO in December and environmental and Indigenous groups are still waiting to hear exactly how the money will be allocated in a bid to keep the park off a list of global World Heritage Sites in danger.

Covid has done what the fiercest of Lake Superior winters could not: Prompted cancellation of winter research at Isle Royale National Park for the first time since 1959.

Running free on Shackleford Banks at Cape Lookout National Seashore on the Outer Banks of North Carolina are 117 horses, which is just below the minimum number the National Park Service tries to maintain at the national seashore.

With nesting season having arrived for nēnē, staff at Haleakalā National Park in Hawai'i are asking motorists to watch out for the threatened geese.