UNESCO Gives Canada New Deadline to Preserve Wood Buffalo National Park

An aerial view of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, on the boundary of Wood Buffalo National Park, on Sept. 19, 2011. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press

A United Nations body has given Canada a new deadline to repair the country’s largest national park and the government is promising greater efforts to stop its deterioration.

At a meeting this week in Baku, Azerbaijan, UNESCO praised Canada for measures it has taken to stop the toll that industrial development have taken on the Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site.