Giving Compass' Take:

• Global Citizen reports on the deterioration of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada due to human development and poor management. What can be done?

• This article should alarm conservationists across North America, where regulation rollbacks have threatened many national parks. The good news is that Canada's environmental department is committing some money to help address the issues at Wood Buffalo. But a larger effort should be mobilized.

• Learn more: Is legal foraging in America’s national parks a path to conservation?

Almost every part of Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada’s largest national park, is deteriorating, according to a new report led by Environment and Climate Change Canada.

In March 2017, UNESCO issued a statement that the park in northeastern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories was threatened by energy development, hydro dams, and poor management. If no actions were taken to improve its status, UNESCO warned that it would be placed on the list of World Heritage Sites in Danger.

This warning prompted the report released this week. The study confirmed that 15 of 17 measures of environmental health are declining in the park.

Industry, dams, climate change and natural cycles are draining the water from the delta of Alberta's Peace and Athabasca rivers.

Read the full article on the deterioration of Wood Buffalo National Park by Jackie Marchildon at Global Citizen.