Grands-Jardins National Park

View over the park

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The Parc national des Grands- Jardins (French for " National Park of the Great Gardens" ) is one of 24 national parks in the Canadian province of Quebec, as there are called the provincial parks.

It has an area of 310 km ² and is part of the Charlevoix Biosphere Reserve. The park established in 1981 to protect an unusual subarctic vegetation, a remnant of the last ice age. However, in 1999 a fire destroyed 4500 hectares of forest. The park is the wettest spruce - lichen forests ( spruce - union woodlands ) find all America.

The area was inhabited until the early 20th century by woodland caribou, but the hunt fell victim. 1969-1972 80 animals of this species were reintroduced and today there is a small herd of about 150 animals.

1995-1998 the Wolf holdings of the region including the Grands- Jardins Park were examined around the provincial capital. Only here and in the protected areas Parc national d' Aiguebelle (268 km ²), de la Mauricie ( 544 km ²), Jacques -Cartier (670 sq km), Mont- Tremblant (1510 km ²), Monts- Valin (153 km ²) and Saguenay ( 283 km ² ) as well as the Réserve de chasse du parc de la Gatineau (150 km ²), of the Wolf in the province not be hunted. So he was protected in 2003, only an area of ​​about 4000 km ².