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About Wapusk National Park

Wapusk National Park is Canada's 37th national park, built up in 1996. The recreation center is situated in the Hudson Plains ecozone, 45 kilometers 28 mi south of Churchill in north-east Manitoba, Canada, on the shores of Hudson Bay. Access to the recreation center is restricted because of its remote area and a push to save the recreation center. The name originates from the Cree word for polar bear. The Park is likewise home to Cape Churchill, or, in other words the best area on the planet to view and photo wild polar bears. The main way individuals can get to Cape Churchill is by helicopter or Tundra Buggy.

The recreation center was the subject of a short movie in 2011 National Parks Project, coordinated by Hubert Davis and scored by Kathleen Edwards, Matt Mays and Sam Roberts. Various flying creatures are found in the Wapusk National Park and it is a possible reproducing zone of the short-charged dowitcher. The Wapusk National Park is a noteworthy maternity denning territory for the polar bear, Ursus maritimus. This national stop is home to creatures, for example, polar bears, incredible dark owls, timber wolves, lemmings, ivory gulls, two types of fox, peregrine hawks, snowshoe rabbits, moose, wolverines, Caspian terns, and a crowd of 3 000 Cape Churchill caribou.

There are two streams:

  • Broad River
  • Owl River
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