Akami−Uapishkᵘ−KakKasuak−Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve

Established in 2015 in Labrador, Akami−Uapishkᵘ−KakKasuak−Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve protects about 10,700 square kilometres of the Mealy Mountains, boreal forest, tundra, and shoreline along the Labrador Sea and Lake Melville. The largest national park in eastern Canada and the largest protected area in eastern North America, it emerged from decades of negotiation between Parks Canada and regional Indigenous communities after earlier proposals were rejected. As a national park reserve, it allows unresolved land claims to continue while shared management agreements with Innu, Inuit, and NunatuKavut protect Indigenous rights and traditional land uses. Its vast habitats shelter migratory birds, fish, salmon, wolves, bears, foxes, martens, and threatened woodland caribou.

Newfoundland and Labrador · Canada