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Wildlife

Wildlife travel needs careful timing and responsible guidance, from high-altitude species to desert habitats and birding wetlands.

Atlas Guide

Where to Go

National parks, rare species, photography, and conservation

Highland Habitat

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Mountain Wildlife

Create interpretive journeys around fragile highland habitats and conservation areas.

Deosai Khunjerab National Park Chitral Gol

Arid Ecosystem

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Desert and Plains

Add lesser-known wildlife landscapes beyond the northern mountains.

Lal Suhanra Kirthar Cholistan

Photo Spot

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Photography and Education

Offer nature photography, birding, and conservation learning as premium guided experiences.

Uchhali wetlands Hingol Deosai Plains

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37 Places

37 of 37 field guides

Balochistan

Astola Island

Remote Arabian Sea island and coastal-marine discovery point.

Gilgit-Baltistan

Central Karakoram National Park

UNESCO tentative site; Pakistan's largest protected high-mountain area with glaciers and K2 approaches.

Punjab

Changa Manga Forest

One of the oldest hand-planted forests in the world, laid out in 1866 about 74 km from Lahore.

Punjab

Chinji Reserve Forest

A 15,000-acre national park of eroded ravines near the Salt Range, home to the Punjab urial.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Chitral Gol National Park

A steep protected mountain landscape west of Chitral, conserving dry-temperate forest, high valleys, and important Kashmir markhor habitat.

Balochistan

Churna Island

A pointed limestone island rising dramatically from the Arabian Sea near Karachi, renowned for snorkelling, scuba diving, and dolphin encounters in clear coastal waters.

Gilgit-Baltistan

Deosai National Park

UNESCO tentative high-altitude park associated with brown bear habitat and summer access.

Sindh

Drigh Lake

Drigh Lake near Larkana: a Ramsar wetland and wildlife sanctuary since 1972, a 164-hectare lake about 29 km from the city.

Sindh

Haleji Lake

A broad freshwater lake and bird sanctuary east of Thatta, filling each winter with migratory waterfowl along the Indus flyway.

Sindh

Hawke's Bay Beach

A long sandy beach west of Karachi lined with painted huts, and one of the few mainland beaches where green turtles still come ashore to nest.

Balochistan

Hazarganji-Chiltan National Park

A national park near Quetta set up in 1980 to protect the rare Chiltan ibex.

Balochistan

Hingol National Park

UNESCO tentative cultural landscape and one of Pakistan's major coast-desert national parks.

Balochistan

Hub Dam Wildlife Sanctuary

Hub Dam Wildlife Sanctuary on the Sindh–Balochistan border near Karachi: a reservoir full of waterfowl, with urial and ibex in the hills.

Balochistan

Jiwani Coastal Wetland

A Ramsar-listed coastal wetland near the Iran border, tidal flats, mangrove creeks, and golden sunsets over the Arabian Sea at Pakistan's westernmost tip.

Punjab

Kala Chitta National Park

The “black and white” hills of Attock, a 91,000-acre national park famous for fossil whales.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Kalasha Valleys Cultural Landscape

Three Hindu Kush valleys, Bumburet, Rumbur, and Birir, home to the Kalasha people, their festivals, and a UNESCO tentative cultural landscape.

Sindh

Karachi Safari Park

Karachi Safari Park, opened in 1970: a 148-acre family park in Gulshan-e-Iqbal with a zoo, safari tracks, a chairlift and two lakes.

Sindh

Keenjhar Lake

One of Pakistan's largest freshwater lakes near Thatta, a Ramsar wetland, water-bird haven, and Sindhi folk-legend site.

Punjab

Kheri Murat Reserve Forest

Scrub-forest hills near Fateh Jang on the edge of the Kala Chitta range, a national park since 2020.

Gilgit-Baltistan

Khunjerab National Park

A vast high-altitude protected landscape around the upper Karakoram Highway, distinct from the border pass located within it.

Gilgit-Baltistan

Khunjerab Pass / National Park

High Karakoram border landscape with major wildlife and mountain-route significance.

Sindh

Kirthar National Park

Kirthar National Park north of Karachi: 3,087 km² of hills, the third largest national park in Pakistan, home to Sindh ibex, urial and leopard.

Punjab

Lal Suhanra National Park

A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1977 spanning some 51,000 hectares east of Bahawalpur, combining desert, forest, and the wetland of Patisar Lake, home to reintroduced blackbuck, chinkara, and more than 160 recorded bird species.