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Yukon Wildlife Preserve
Yukon Wildlife Preserve protects local and neighboring wild animals, and show them to public. Here is popular sightseeing destination when visiting Whitehorse. There was a group of Japanese when I visited. many of the guests looked Japanese. It costs 18 CAD to enter. There is also an optional bus tour. I walked in the park because the trail is 3 to 4km in total. |
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This is the map of the entire park. Entrance is located on lower right. There are closed areas where there are protected wild animals separated by fences around the trail. |
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Antlers of Moose. Shed antlers (or velvets or horns) can be found everywhere on the trail. |
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Red Fox sleeping with a pillow of its own tail He lost his leg by an accident. |
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Mountain Goat |
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| During the first half of my tour, the animals were only seen with a long distance. A staff who gave an instruction at a reception house and I met him again on the way. I made slips of the tongue to say "Here looks like a vacant zoo." ^^; The staff replied surprisingly "pretty much the same." But he added explanation that 3 to 4 animals died due to the spread of human-borne infections through human contact. Their mission is to protect endangered species of wild animals and return them to the nature after breading. I understood that a zoo is just one aspect among many roles of the park and the meaning of "Preserve". I could watch many animals closer later. |
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Mountain Goat. Their hairs are about to reborn. Fallen hairs will be used to make garment or other products. |
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Male of Thinforn Sheep, with great horns. |
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A herd of female Thinhorn Sheep. |
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Arctic Ground Squirrel. Squirrels are common in a park in northern America. |
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Muslox. |
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Elk without velvets. Their velvets fall before winter and new ones start growing at the end of winter. |
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You can watch the wild animals through the following movie. END
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| （Updated；10.9.2023） |
