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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
.