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Kashmir Wildlife
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Kashmir Tourism
in India offers a perfect tour package filled with all inclusive
travel interests along with the wildlife trip in Kashmir. Travel
to Kashmir in India and explore some of the highest terrains of
the world to come across some of the rarest species of the world.
Trip to Kashmir, India and make your wildlife tour to Kashmir very
pleasing and satisfying. Trek to the highest lands and deepest
valleys of Kashmir with rare to find yaks, blue sheeps, haguls,
Kashmiri stags, pheasants and lots more. Wildlife tourism in Kashmir
is complete with wildlife stocks of India. |
Dachigam
National Park: amidst forests of silver birch and
conifer roams the hangul. Rare and on the verge of extinction
till a few years ago, the national park at Dachigam contains
the last viable hangul population in the world. Related to
the red deer of Europe, this breed is characterized by its
white rump patch and impressive spread of antlers. At one time
the exclusive hunting pre-serve of the Maharaja of Kashmir,
it was declared a national park in 1951, and owing to a strictly
enforced conservation programme, the hangul population, once
150, now stands at over 400 animals.
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Dachigam, spread over an area of
141 sq km, is the home of 20 mammal species including the leopard
and over 150 species of avifauna. Open throughout
the year, there is no prime viewing season, as the visitor
will find something of interest all through the year.
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Hemis High Altitude National Park:
includes the catchments of two valleys which drain into the River
Indus. It is named after the famous monastery - Hemis, and sprawls
over 600 sq km. approachable by road from Leh. This national park
contains several camping sites. The area is barren and rocky, covered
only sparsely with vegetation. Most of the ten species of mammal
here are extremely rare - shapu, bharal, great Tibetan sheep, ibex
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Overa Wildlife
Sanctuary: located 76 km from Srinagar, near Pahalgam,
it has an area of 32 sq km, and is famed for its many species
of pheasants. It sustains 13 species of mammals and over 80
species of birds.
Overa-Aru Biosphere Reserve: located 76 km
from Srinagar, near Pahalgam, it has an area of 32 sq km. Several
species of birds as wed as fauna are found here - musk deer,
brown bear, leopard to name a few. The altitudinal range varies
from 3,000 to 5,425 metros above sea level.
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Gulmarg Biosphere Reserve:
48 km from Srinagar, the reserve has an area of lS0 so km. and
an altitudinal range of 2,400 - 4,300 meters above sea level.
Fauna includes Himalayan musk deer, red fox, brown and black
bear.
Ramnagar Wildlife Sanctuary:
situated only 6 km away from Jammu city, this sanctuary occupies
an area of 31 km. The area sustains 8 mammal species including
nilgai and barking deer, and 15 species of birds.
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Other sanctuaries near
Jammu are:
Nandni Wildlife Sanctuary: (26
km) the sanctuary has an area of 33 sq km. |
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Surinsar
Mansar Wildlife Sanctuary: named for the two lakes
on each corner of it, this sanctuary comprises an area of 98
sq km, and supports a mammal population of 8 species, and up
to 15 species of birds.
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Jasrota
Wildlife Sanctuary: spread over an area of 10 sq
km, the sanctuary houses an appreciable variety of bird and
animal life, most notably cheetal or axis deer.
Kishtwar
High Altitude National Park: in Jammu is interesting
for the marked variations in topography and vegetation that
occur here. Spread
over an area of 400 sq km, the park contains 15 mammal species
including the musk deer, and Himalayan black and brown bear.
There are 50 species of birds. Prime mammal viewing season
is from March to May.
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