Wild life in Khyber Pakhtun Khwa

Pakistan

Khyber Pakhtun Khwa (KPK) is one of the richest provinces amongst four of the existing ones. KPK is famous for its rich & diverse culture with a great topographic diversity. It has vast plains, broken lands, low hills and high mountains of Himalaya-Karakorum, Hindukush, Koh Safaid and Suleiman ranges. Today, me going to talk about the wild life at KPK.

KPK supports 94 species of mammals out of the total 158 species found in Pakistan. Three of the six species endemic to Pakistan, namely: Whooly flying squirrel, Murree Vole, and Indus River Dolphin, are also found in KPK.

KPK has 453 birds’ species out of total 660 birds species present in Pakistan. There are 42 species of reptiles out of 174 species of reptiles present in Pakistan.

Important Wildlife species of the province are Indus Dolphin, Snow Leopard, Straight Horned Markhor, Western Horned Tragopan, Cheer Pheasant and Asian Cobra.

Me belong to Hazara which is famous for its silk route, wild life and beautiful hill stations. Kohistan inhabits a small population of the Markhor. In the Thakot, Kohistan area we can easily spot the Blind Indus Dolphins playing on the surface of Indus River.

As we move forward towards Mansehra, we have various kinds of birds like pheasants, doves, sparrows, quails, pidwegeons, etc. We also have two kinds of crows here: Mountain crows and white crows.

 The animals found in the Abbotabad region are deer, leopards, lions, monkeys,etc.

This is my little effort to highlight a few species of mammals and birds of hazara. Hope you liked what I wrote.

                                                                                                                                 

Maleeha Hayat