The new and expanded wildland provincial parks are: Kazan, Richardson, Dillon River, Birch River and Birch Mountains. In total, these northern Alberta parks contribute more than 1.36 million hectares to the province’s protected area network. The additional land and its proximity to Wood Buffalo National Park will create the largest contiguous boreal protected area in the world, and conserve vital habit that is home to several species of conservation concern, including three federally designated species at risk.
The designation of four wildland provincial parks and the expansion of another will add more than 1.36 million hectares of new conserved land for future generations of Albertans.
The Government of Alberta partnered with The Government of Canada, the Tallcree First Nation, Syncrude and the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) on the conservation of more than 6.7 million hectares (67,000 sq. km) of boreal forest.