Great Himalayan National Park
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How it came to be
The Great Himalayan National Park lies in the western Himalaya near Kullu, in Himachal Pradesh, northern India. It runs from peaks above 6,000 m down to riverine forest below 2,000 m and holds the headwaters of the Tirthan, Sainj and other rivers. It sits where two great biogeographic realms meet, the Indomalayan and the Palearctic.
Surveys of the watersheds were carried out from 1980 to 1983, and in 1984 the state government announced its intention to create a park. Settlement of local people's rights began in 1988, and from 1994 to 1999 a World Bank-funded biodiversity project set up 16 village committees to involve residents. The park was formally made a national park in 1999.
It has 25 forest types and 805 species of vascular plants, about 58 percent of its flowering plants found only in the western Himalaya. Western tragopans and musk deer live here, and the park was inscribed for its biodiversity in 2014.
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