Banff bison pilot program takes off as population swells

Parks Canada says a campaign to re-introduce bison into Banff National Park is paying off as the original population of 16 animals has grown to approximately 80. The data, collected over the first five years of Parks Canada's Plains Bison Reintroduction Pilot, monitored the lives of a small group of animals that were released into an enclosed pasture in 2017. Officials say the herd was released to explore the full reintroduction zone the following year and that's where the animals have been livi