Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
The Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park is the union of Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada with the Glacier National Park in the United States . Both parks were declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1976 and 1979, and a World Heritage Site in 1995 .
The merger of the two national parks came about in 1932 through the members of the Rotary Club from Alberta and Montana . It was the first peace park in the world, an international "peace park ". It is supposed to symbolize friendship and peace between the two countries. There are efforts to establish more parks between the US and Mexico .
The park has a size of 4,572 km² and is located in southwest Alberta and northwest Montana, on the east side of the Rocky Mountains and on the western edge of the North American prairie . In the park there are steppes , forests , alpine mountains and glaciers and a large number of plants and mammals. It is the core of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem , a major ecosystem in the Rocky Mountains in both states, far beyond the national parks.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Big Bend Officials exploring ideas for increased cooperation with Mexico ( Memento of July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Heritage: L'Anse aux Meadows (1978) | SGaang Gwaii (1981) | Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (1981) | Old Québec (1985) | Old town of Lunenburg (1995) | Rideau Canal (2007) | Grand Pré Cultural Landscape (2012) | Red Bay (2013) | Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai'pi (2019)
Natural Heritage: Nahanni National Park Reserve (1978) | Dinosaur Provincial Park (1979) | Kluane National Park and Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park (1979) | Wood Buffalo National Park (1983) | Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (1984) | Gros Morne National Park (1987) | Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (1995) | Miguasha Paleontological Park (1999) | Joggins Fossil Cliffs (2008) | Mistaken Point (2016)
Cultural / natural heritage: Pimachiowin Aki (2018)
Heritage: Mesa Verde National Park (1978) | Independence Hall (1979) | Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (1982) | La Fortaleza and San Juan Historic Site in Puerto Rico (1983) | Statue of Liberty (1984) | Chaco Culture (with Chaco Culture National Historical Park ) (1987) | Monticello and University of Virginia at Charlottesville (1987) | Taos Pueblo (1992) | Monumental earthworks of Poverty Point (2014) | Mission Stations in San Antonio (2015) | The Architecture of the 20th Century by Frank Lloyd Wright (2019)
Natural Heritage: Yellowstone National Park (1978) | Grand Canyon National Park (1979) | Everglades National Park (1979, R ) | Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Glacier Bay National Park (1979) | Redwood National and State Park (1980) | Mammoth Cave National Park (1981) | Olympic National Park (1981) | Great Smoky Mountains National Park (1983) | Yosemite National Park (1984) | Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (1987) | Carlsbad Caverns National Park (1995) | Glacier National Park (as part of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park ) (1995)
Cultural / natural heritage: Papahānaumokuākea (2010)