Deosai Mountains Things to Do

The Deosai Plateau has lots of natural wonderful flowers. All of different colours and kinds. You will find them mostly in spring, especially near lakes. They die in the winter and regrow from their seeds in the summers.

Deosai is famous for its wildlife, especially its brown bears, which live in their highest concentration in this area. However, you will be extremely lucky if you managed to see them. Deosai Plains make up one of the last frontiers of natural habitat for the Himalayan brown bear, a creature that once roamed the mountains freely. The park currently has inbetween 20-28 Brown bears. This park was establised to protect these endangered bears. Recently a research project has started by Himalayan Wildlife Foundation (HWF) and the Northern Areas Forests, Parks, and Wildlife Department to secure the survival of the brown bear in the Deosai Plains and to monitor their population. The Deosai Plains are also home to the ibex, red fox, golden marmot, wolf, the Ladakh urial, the snow leopard, and a number of resident and migratory birds. Marmots are extremely common with some of them extremely large.

Mammals in the park include--Brown bear, Snow leopard , Himalayan Musk deer Golden marmot , Pika , Migratory hamster and Ermine. Birds in the park are--Golden eagle, Lammagier vulture, Griffon vulture, Laggar falcon, Peregrine falcon, Kestrel, Indian sparrow hawk and Snow cock.

Their preferred habitat includes mountain forests, open meadows and large river. The Brown Bear in Pakistan is now very rare due to constant persecution by local villagers and by hunting. But the main threat to this bears survival is from local gypsies or "Kalandars", who earn their living from dancing bears and bear baiting (read a special report about bear baiting in Pakistan from WSPA). These bears are caught after their mother is shot. It is sad to see more bears on the streets of the big cities of Pakistan than in the wild .