The UNESCO World Heritage List View 830
Properties around the world with outstanding universal
Value, 13 of them are located in Canada, and 5
These are in Alberta.
First Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
For thousands of years the native population of North
America has used Buffalo to offer life
Necessity, meat, clothing, shelter, tools and fire.
They stormed the largest herds and slaughtered rocks
groundwhere established fields. The
Skeletal remains of more than 30 meters deep, are places
still there. At slaughter bearing the remains of meat
Cache and kitchen sinks are on top of layers of bone.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is known around the world
the remarkable testimony of prehistoric life.
According to Dinosaur Provincial Park
The first time we traveled through Alberta
Landscape changes suddenly. It was as if there were
literally landed onMoon. A feeling shared by many.
foreign land formations rise on all sides, sculpted
by wind and water forms beautiful under the sun
Terracotta, bronze and amber. A trip to Dinosaur
Provincial Park is a 75 million years back in time.
This region was then a subtropical paradise populated by
Turtles, crocodiles and sharks. Here, once the dinosaurs
chased and bred, and eventually met his death
Leave a surprisingly rich record of fossils and bonesus
discovery today. Dinosaur Provincial Park - a world
World Heritage Sites like no other on earth!
3 Wood Buffalo National Park
With 44.807000 km square of Canada's Wood Buffalo
the largest national park. It was founded in 1922 to
Protect the last herds of bison in North
Canada. Today, protecting Canada's northern boreal
Plains. The largest free-roaming bison self
Farms in the world, the only one leftNesting
the endangered whooping crane, the biologically rich
Peace Athabasca Delta, extensive salt plains, and some
finest examples of karst topography in plaster
North America.
Four Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
Seven parks in the Canadian Rockies have some
the most famous mountains on Earth. More than nine
Millions of people every year visit the seven stored together
Alberta-British Columbia border. There are four
National Parks as a whole - Banff, Jasper, Yoho and
Kootenay. You are responsible for most of the conservation of 22 990
Square kilometers. Beside them are three English
Columbia Provincial Parks - Mount Robson, Mount
Assiniboine and Hamber.
The park is rich in natural wonders: jagged peaks
Needle and slopes, streams and glacial silt
turquoise lakes, the great and the Columbia Icefield
Castle Guard Caves complex. The Burgess Shale inYoho
contains one of the most important finds of
soft body, Middle Cambrian marine fossils of age with
About 150 species, including some with no similarity
animals known.
5 Park Waterton Glacier International Peace
The sudden rise of the Rockies from the prairie
Lowlands has the Twin Parks made the place "when the
Mountains meet the prairie. "Nature has provided very
that is worthy of protection: high mountains and deep
Canyons, grasslands, steppes and forest belts, deep
Lakes and rivers of glacial valley that feeds three oceans.
The diversity of wildlife - mountain goats, bighorn sheep,
Coyotes, grizzly bears, dozens of birds, and a
famous "international herd of elk that migrate
each year between habitats of mountain glaciers and
Waterton Prairie in winter ranges.
The highlight of the chain of sparkling Waterton Lakes is
International Upper Waterton Lake, thedeepest lake
in the Canadian Rockies. In 1932 the park was joined
Montana with Glacier National Park to form
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park - a world
first.
With information obtained from Parks Canada.
http://www.pc.gc.ca/progs/spm-whs/index_E.asp
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