The region’s Wildlife Department has shut the doors of the Dachigam National Park to vehicles and grazers as a part of an effort to protect the last habitat of hanguls, a critically endangered species of stag found only in the park. The measures are aimed to stop disturbances to hanguls’ habitat inside the 144 sq km Dachigam National Park, located on outskirts of the city here. Hanguls, whose number has dwindled from several thousand in early 1900s to 200-odd in the latest surveys, is the state animal of Jammu and…
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