Tuktut Nogait

Tuktut Nogait National Park, established in 1998, protects 18,181 square kilometres of Arctic tundra, rivers, and coastline in the northern mainland Northwest Territories, near the Nunavut border. The park preserves critical calving grounds for the Bluenose-West caribou herd, spectacular canyon systems, and lands with deep significance to Inuvialuit. The Inuvialuktun name means 'young caribou,' reflecting the park's importance as a calving area where caribou have given birth for thousands of years. Co-managed with Inuvialuit, the park represents a successful model of Indigenous-government cooperation in protecting culturally and ecologically significant wilderness.