Dachigam National Park

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Dachigam National Park
In the background the mountains of the Dachigam National Park
In the background the mountains of the Dachigam National Park
Dachigam National Park (India)
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Coordinates: 34 ° 8 ′ 24 ″  N , 75 ° 1 ′ 12 ″  E
Location: Jammu and Kashmir , India
Next city: Srinagar
Surface: 147 km²
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The Dachigam National Park is located in northern India, in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, about 22 km from Srinagar . The national park is best known for the world's last occurrence of the threatened Hangul or Kashmiri deer . The area was designated as a reserve as early as 1951 and the Dachigam National Park was founded in 1981. The park area extends over an area of ​​147 square kilometers.

Landscape and vegetation

The park includes a higher alpine part in the east and a forest area below it in the west, where many animals retreat in the winter months. The eastern part is at altitudes between 2000 and 4400 m, the western part comprises areas between 1650 and 3950 m.

Wildlife

Hangul pack in the national park

The national park is the hangul or cashmere deer's last refuge. In 1947 the stag population was around 2000 animals. After a dramatic decline, there were only about 150 of the rare deer left in 1970. In the meantime, the stocks recovered to around 1000 copies, but the numbers fell again to below 120 in 2008. In the meantime, the downward trend seems to have broken for the time being. Just one year later (2009) the park housed a population of just over 200 cashmere deer. The Hanguls are mainly hunted by leopards and feral dogs. The prey remains provide food for brown bears , collar bears , golden jackals and red foxes . Other mammals in the park are long-tailed marmots , Himalayan musk deer , serau , great martens , bengal cats , reed cats , otters and Indian mongooses . A snow leopard was seen once in the 1970s. There are also around 150 species of birds in the park.

literature

  • Biswajit Roy Chowdhury, Buroshiva Dasgupta, Indira Bhattacharya: Natural Wonders of India & Nepal , New Holland Publishers Ltd, 2002. ISBN 1-85974-523-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Samina Amin Charoo, Lalit Kumar Sharma, S. Sathyakumar: Asiatic Black Bear - Human Conflicts around Dachigam National Park, Kashmir Technical Report. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. 51 pp. (2009)
  2. ↑ Malik Ahsaf Aziz, Shazia Lone, Fayaz Ahmad Lone: An Overview of Hangul ( Cervus elaphus hanglu , Wagner) in Dachigam National Park, Kashmir (India). Division of Environmental Sciences, SK University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, J&K - 191 121 (India, 2010).