Some 80% of the area is covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet<\/a>, which is the second largest body of ice in the world.<\/p>\n There are few permanent residents. Around 40 people inhabit a variety of research stations posted along the coast and a naval unit that operates using dog-driven sleds patrols parts of the region.<\/p>\n The Inuit settlement of Ittoqqortoormiit is the only permanent settlement. While some residents still make their living hunting native wildlife, others have turned to the tourist industry. And many young people leave. Economic instability \u2013 and the threat of polar bears<\/a> \u2013 are a constant for the approximately 350 citizens.<\/p>\n The park is home to a wide variety of Arctic wildlife<\/a>. In addition to polar bears, it hosts Arctic foxes<\/a>, musk oxen<\/a>, walruses<\/a> and several species of seal<\/a> \u2013 as well as 90% of the Greenland wolf’s (a sub-species of grey wolf<\/a>) total population.<\/p>\n The coastal areas are home to narwhals<\/a> and beluga whales<\/a> as well as a range of avian species including ducks, geese, gulls, skuas, puffins<\/a> and shorebirds such as sandpipers and plovers.<\/p>\n Discover more amazing wildlife stories from around the world<\/p>\n Top image: a musk ox in Geologfjord, Northeast Greenland National Park. Credit: Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natural areas have been granted a wide variety of protections, according to local, national and international standards \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-88364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kjerulf](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kjerulf-Fjord-in-Northeast-Greenland-National-Park.jpg\")
Kjerulf Fjord in Northeast Greenland National Park. The area is known as an ‘iceberg graveyard’ as icebergs are driven in by wind and currents before becoming stranded. Credit: Getty<\/p>\n