Place · national park · India
Great Himalayan National Park
The 1,171-square-kilometre national park in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh, in the upper Beas river catchment, protecting habitats from alpine peaks at 6,000m down to riverine forest at 1,500m. The park holds the elusive snow leopard (approximately 30-40 individuals), the Himalayan tahr, musk deer, Himalayan brown bear, blue sheep (bharal) and the Western tragopan. The Jiwa Nal, Sainj and Tirthan river catchments drain the park. The park's conservation movement is unusual — it is one of the few Indian parks with Supreme Court-mandated bans on dam construction (2003) and legally recognised Van Gujjar transhumance rights. UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014. Reached by trek from Kullu through Shangarh village.
- Date
- 2014
- Function
- Archaeology & heritage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 31.750, 77.500
Connections (1)
- In the same set asWestern Ghats
The Western Ghats and the Great Himalayan National Park are the two mountain-system properties, and both were negotiated down. The Ghats nomination was reduced to thirty-nine components after state objections; the Himalayan park was created by curtailing village grazing and herb-collection rights in the buffer. Conservation designation in India is a settlement with people who live there, not a wilderness declaration.
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Sources
List of World Heritage Sites in India — Wikipedia
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