Wildlife of Azad Jammu and Kashmir | Beautiful Wild Animals found in AJK | Wildlife of Pakistan

Azad State of Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) covers an area of 1.330 million ha. This land size is put to different uses. The cultivated area is 0.173 million ha (13%). Share of wastelands is 0.590million ha (44%) and the forest cover 0.567 million ha, which is about 43% of the total land area of AJ&K. The forest/rangeland ecosystem in AJ&K is of great biological and economic significance for harboring a variety of plant and animal life, diversity of habitats and providing livelihood to millions of people. This forest and rangeland ecosystem mostly occupies hill slopes in the temperate regions of Himalayan Mountains. Azad Kashmir has many unique animals and birds including: Leopard Snow Leopard Himalayan Brown Bear Himalayan Black Bear Himalayan Musk Deer Yellow throated Marten Masked Palm Civet Grey Goral Western Tragopan Koklass Pheasant Monal Pheasant Kalij Pheasant