National Deosai Park skardu "the roof of the world"

                                       

Deosai

     The word Deosai comprises Deo, or Djin, which is the meaning  for spirits and Sai represents the sitting spot, which together mean the "spot of spirits' '. Deosai filled in as a significant shipping lane among Kashmir and Gilgit, and in the pre-partition era, it filled in as an area where the majority of the ancestral contentions were settled. Wars were battled in Deosai fields by champions like the Dogras, nearby clans and the Turks. Its geographic area makes it a significant region according to vital perspective, as it is near the Line of Control (LoC) with India, in the Indian held Kashmir.

      The Government of Gilgit-Baltistan, proclaimed Deosai as National Park on May 14, 1993, spreading over an area of roughly 3626 Sq. Km. As per IUCN safeguarded region classes, Deosai is a classification I National Park, for the security and protection of endemic types of Himalayan Brown bear.

   The Deosai National Park is located at the intersection of three significant Mountain ranges, western Himalayas, the Ladkh and Zanskar. Deosai fields are separated as Bara and little Deosai. Bara Deosai is roughly 30Km in the south of Skardu and open from North through a jeep capable street from Skardu, which enters the fields by means of Ali Malik Pass. This jeep street crosses the fields and goes down into Astore valley in the West through Sheosar pass close to sheosar lake. Bara Deosai is the primary fortress of the Brown Bear.

       Deosai National Park is an elevated level of uncommon magnificence and environmental worth situated in the western massif of the Himalayas, east of Nanga Parbat Peak and in closeness to the Central Karakoram Range. The level, with an elevation of 3500 to 5200 m., is an area of 358,400 ha. of level however undulating fields broken by tenderly moving slopes and encompassed on all sides by mountains. It frames a glaring difference to a significant part of the encompassing scene which consists of restricted valleys between steep mountains.

Nanga parbat

The level's current circumstance is described by an outrageous cold with low air pressure combined with low oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, aridity, serious and quick sun oriented bright radiation. The Deosai plain gets higher precipitation than connecting northern and north eastern valleys of Baltistan because of its geological area confronting the storm that impacted the external Himalayas. Yearly precipitation fluctuates from 350 to 550 mm., generally during winter as snow.

      Deosai National Park is found where two biogeographical areas converge, in the Himalayan and Karakoram-Pamir good countries. Thus, it is a position of exceptionally rich biodiversity as species are directed through the Karakoram range, the fundamental peak of the Himalayas, Zanskar range (Trans-Himalaya), Ladakh range (Trans-Himalaya) and the Indus valley.

    These elements consolidate to make high elevation wetlands described by Sheosar Lake, at 4,250m which addresses an interesting class of snow capped wetlands that is restricted to the Himalaya, Hindukush and Karakoram mountain cordilleras. The wetlands are taken care of by snow liquefy from the encompassing high snow-clad pinnacles and are depleted by some quick streaming waterways and streams. Huge territories of snow capped glades substitute with drier stony regions, and there are patches of bantam willows along the waterways and streams with numerous types of Poa, Saxifraga and Euphorbia. The level is exceptionally huge as far as watershed esteem. Three significant waterway frameworks start from Deosai National Park to be specific; Shatung, Bara Pani and Kala Pani which structure the Shigar River, a significant feeder of the Indus River.

     The recreation area is important for the Conservation International Himalayan Biodiversity Hotspot and contains a rich assortment of animal groups including a populace of Tibetan wolf (Canis lupus chanco), Himalayan ibex (Capra ibex sibrica), Tibetan red fox (vulpus montana) and Golden marmots (Marmota caudata). The waters of the Deosai level are home to the neighborhood snow trout which arrive at tremendous size. The recreation area exists in the Birdlife International's Western Himalaya Endemic Bird Area and is significant as a resting spot and favorable place of private and transitory birds of worldwide significance. The vegetation of Deosai is impacted by four significant floristic components: Boreoalpine and Circumpolar; the Euro-Siberian; Southern European/Mediterranean and Siberian-Mongolian and is home to many types of restorative and sweet-smelling plants. In the Spring season it is covered by scopes of wildflowers and a wide assortment of rare butterflies.