Kirthar National Park

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Kirthar National Park

IUCN Category II - National Park

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location Pakistan , are
surface 3087 km²
WDPA ID 834
Geographical location 25 ° 42 '  N , 67 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 25 ° 42 '0 "  N , 67 ° 35' 0"  E
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Location of the Kirthar National Park
Setup date 1974
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The Kirthar National Park lies in the southwestern part of the province are in Pakistan and was founded in the 1974th The total area covers 3087 km², making it the second largest national park in the country after the Hingol National Park . Natural fauna included leopards, striped hyenas, wolves, honey badgers, horned sheep , Chinkara gazelles and the Sind wild goats . Deer goat antelopes are bred in enclosures for a planned release into the wild. The large predators, on the other hand, have now been largely exterminated. This is how the last leopard was shot down in 1977.

  • Source in Kirthar National Park

  • Wild goats in the national park

  • Indian gazelle in the park

  • Wild goats

  • Hiking group in the national park

  • Lake in Kirthar National Park

  • Landscape in the national park

Web links

Commons : Kirthar National Park  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  • Shackleton, D., M., (ed.) And the IUCN / SSC Caprinae Specialist Group, 1997. Wild Sheep and Goats and their Relatives. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan for Caprinae. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
  1. ↑ Michael JB Green: IUCN directory of South Asian protected areas. IUCN-World Conservation Union (December 1990). ISBN 2-8317-0030-2