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Wood Buffalo National Park Gets Funding To Fight Threats

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.
PDF icon Report on the State of Conservation of Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site (December 2020)

Will A Gun Protect You From A Bear Attack?

With more than 100 episodes of National Parks Traveler podcasts, there are some worth listening to again, or for the first time if you're a newcomer to the Traveler. With that in mind, we're pulling Episode 21 out of the archives, as it addresses how effective guns in backcountry locations are when it comes to defending against bear attacks.

Search-And-Rescue 101 In The National Park System

Each year, there are more than 1,000 search-and-rescue missions across the National Park System. Did you ever wonder how the rangers go about staging a SAR mission, as they're called. In this week's National Parks Traveler podcast, we talk to the SAR experts at Rocky Mountain National Park to better understand what's involved when the call goes out for help.