Central Karakoram National Park, Deosai National Park
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Central Karakoram National Park is a national park located in Skardu district of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. It encompasses some of the world’s highest peaks and largest glaciers. Internationally renowned for mountaineering, rock climbing and trekking opportunities, it covers an area of about 10,000 sq. km and contains the greatest concentration of high mountains on earth. It has four peaks over 8,000 m including K2, Gasherbrum-I, Gasherbrum-II and Broad Peak, and sixty peaks higher than 7,000 m. The park was placed on the World Heritage Site Tentative List in 2016. ()
Deosai National Park
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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
Asiatic Black Bear
The Asian black bear, also known as the Asiatic black bear, moon bear and white-chested bear, is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia that is largely adapted to an arboreal lifestyle.
Mammals
Gray wolf
The wolf, also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, and gray wolves...
Mammals
Red fox
The red fox is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of...
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
Northern Areas