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Dachigam National
Park is a landscape of beauty painted on a canvas of
uncertainty. Dachigam National Park is 22 Km from Srinagar, the
capital city
of the Northern state Jammu & Kashmir in India. Dachigam
National Park exists
today because of a mixture
of luck and the dedication shown by the forests guards. In a
major encounter between the security forces and militants who
took shelter in Dachigam National Park in 1993
a large section of tinder - dry park caught fire. It was only
thanks to the effort
of the forests guards that the fire was controlled.
Dachigam National Park is a long, narrow sliver of territory
that slopes down towards the dal lake forming almost half of its
catchments area. The name of
the park stands for "ten villages" which could be in memory of
the ten villages that were relocated for its formation. |
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Dachigam National Park has been a protected area since 1910,
first under the care of the maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir and
later under the observation of
the concerned govt. authorities. It was initially created to
ensure clean drinking
water supply for the city of Srinagar. Dachigam National Park
was finally
upgraded & declared a national park in the year 1981.
Dachigam National Park is also the last habitat of the hangul or the
Kashmir stag, and home to many rare species of plants and animals.
While a tremendous conservation effort has been on to save the park
and its denihens, the govt. sheep breeding farm, is not helping
matters. Taking a area from the farm, locals also graze their goats
and cattle in the parks shrinking grass lands.
In
Dachigam National Park has 500 or so hangurs of
Dachigam National Park are so shy. Their natural habitat is
shrinking. A few years ago in upper
Dachigam National Park the government constructed a sheep
breeding farm that is rapidly changing into the hangulis grasslands.
If the conflict for grazing resources between hangul and sheep is
not resolved quickly , the hangul would go from being a
endangered species to an extinct one.
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