What are some of the other threats faced by Canadian national parks?
Threats to park EI differ regionally based on park size, land use in adjacent areas, and the home range requirements of populations of park animals. In Kejimkujik National Park, we’re seeing mercury pollution, which is airborne deposition from the industrial heartland of the United States. In southern Ontario parks are generally small, adjacent land use includes agriculture and residential development, and impacted park populations include amphibians, reptiles, and interior forest songbirds. National parks in the Boreal Forest area are moderate in size, are often surrounded by industrial forest land use, and the sustainability of wide-ranging species such as caribou and black bear can be compromised. Arctic national parks are not threatened in the short term due to their very large size and lack of significant adjacent land use, but are at the vanguard of long term climate-driven ecological change. The ecological effects of climate change will eventually provide a significant threat to
