Ivvavik, meaning ‘a place for giving birth, a nursery',
in Inuvialuktun, the language of the Inuvialuit, is the first
national park in Canada to be created as a result of an aboriginal
land claim agreement. The park protects a portion of the calving
grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd and represents the Northern
Yukon and Mackenzie Delta natural regions.