Baltistan Wildlife Sanctuary
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Baltistan Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary covering an area of 415 square kilometres in the Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. Contiguous with the Astore Wildlife Sanctuary to its south and east, the Baltistan Wildlife Sanctuary lies south of the Indus River, between the villages of Rondu and Shengus, in the Skardu District. This protected area was established in 1975, for the purpose of conserving the threatened species that occupy the park, and among them there are snow leopard, brown bear, lynx, Tibetan wolf, Tibetan sand fox, markhor, bharal, and Siberian ibex. ()
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Wildlife
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Snow leopard
The snow leopard, also known as the ounce, is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because the global...
Mammals
Brown (Grizzly) Bear
The brown bear is a bear species found across Eurasia and North America. In North America, the populations of brown bears are called grizzly bears.
Mammals
Markhor
The markhor, is a large Capra species native to Central Asia, Karakoram and the Himalayas. It is listed on the IUCN Red List as Near Threatened since 2015.
Mammals
Eurasian Lynx
A lynx is any of the four species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx. The name lynx originated in Middle English via Latin from the Greek word λύγξ, derived from the Indo-European...
Mammals
Blue Sheep, Bharal
The bharal, also called the Helan Shan blue sheep, Chinese blue sheep, Himalayan blue sheep or naur, is a caprid found in Bhutan, Gansu, the high Himalayas of India, Inner Mongolia...
Mammals
Northern Areas