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The Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland has now been expanded, adding around 152,000 hectares to the largest contiguous area of protected land in the world. The expanded area was previously managed as Green Area under the Public Lands Act. The Green Area covers about 61 per cent of the province and includes most of northern Alberta as well as the mountain and foothills areas along the province's western boundary. In the Green Area, public lands are managed for timber production, watershed, fish and wildlife, recreation, energy development, and other uses. There is a mixture of industrial activity in the proposed expansion but there has not been a large amount of development in this area.
The Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland expansion:
- Supports Indigenous peoples’ traditional activities, including the exercise of treaty rights
- Creates backcountry recreation opportunities
- Connecting the landscape to other wildland provincial parks to enhance ecological integrity
- Provides habitat protection for caribou, the Ronald Lake bison herd, and other species. - Almost all of the expansion (97.95 per cent or 140,799 hectares) overlaps with the Red Earth caribou range.