Astore Wildlife Sanctuary


Astore Wildlife Sanctuary is as wildlife refuge located in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. It is within the Astore District, between Nanga Parbat to the west and the plains of Deosai to the east, and about from the town of Bungi. Its area is approximately and its altitude is from to.
The sanctuary is home to a small population of the near threatened Astor Markhor, the national animal of Pakistan, it further provides home to endangered snow leopard, Himalayan brown bear and Eurasian lynx.