Thaidene Nëné, which translates to Land of the Ancestors, is a protected area that will span 6.5 million acres (26,376 km2) at the transition between boreal forest and tundra. It includes the East Arm of Tu Nedhé (Great Slave Lake), the deepest freshwater source in North America, and provides habitat for grizzly bears, wolves, moose, and muskox, and the critical winter ground for the last herds of barren ground caribou.
Thaidene Nëné, which translates to Land of the Ancestors, is a protected area that will span 6.5 million acres (26,376 km2) at the transition between boreal forest and tundra. It includes the East Arm of Tu Nedhé (Great Slave Lake), the deepest freshwater source in North America, and provides habitat for grizzly bears, wolves, moose, and muskox, and the critical winter ground for the last herds of barren ground caribou.