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25 Cents - Elizabeth II Wood Bison
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Mint | Royal Canadian Mint |
| Mintage | 2011 - - 6,250,000 |
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The wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) had been effectively extinct in the wild by the early twentieth century, reduced to a single herd of under 300 animals near Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. A 1957 survey confirmed the survival of a genetically pure population in a remote corner of Wood Buffalo National Park, which became the foundation for subsequent recovery programs. By 2011, Canadian herds had rebounded to roughly 10,000 animals — a figure that prompted reclassification from "endangered" to "threatened" under Canada's Species at Risk Act.