Saturday, May 1, 2010






BlackBuck Male at Lal Suhanra National Park, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
















Lal Suhanra National Park was set up to re-introduce the extinct BlackBuck antelope back into Pakistan. The Blackbuck once occured throughout the deserts and scrub forests of Punjab and Sindh but had been ruthlessly hunted. The male is a chocolatey brown above with a white under body and long spiralling horns. Lal Suhanra includes bits of the Cholistan desert, a irrigated plantation and a large man-made reservoir. Its a managed biosphere.Other wildlife to be found here include Hog Deer, Chinkara gazelle, Nilai or BlueBull, Wolves, Caracal lynx, Ratel or Honey badger, Wolves, Sandgrouse, partridges and other desert wildlife. There is even a pair of Rhino's which were gifted from Nepal in the captive breeding suite. Rhino's were once found as far west as the Peshawar Valley in the Mughal Emperor Babur's day but now are extinct in Pakistan and western India.










Lal Suhanra National Park, Bahawalpur, Pakistan


















Lal Suhanra National Park was set up to re-introduce the extinct BlackBuck antelope back into Pakistan. The Blackbuck once occured throughout the deserts and scrub forests of Punjab and Sindh but had been ruthlessly hunted. The male is a chocolatey brown above with a white under body and long spiralling horns. Lal Suhanra includes bits of the Cholistan desert, a irrigated plantation and a large man-made reservoir. Its a managed biosphere.Other wildlife to be found here include Hog Deer, Chinkara gazelle, Nilai or BlueBull, Wolves, Caracal lynx, Ratel or Honey badger, Wolves, Sandgrouse, partridges and other desert wildlife. There is even a pair of Rhino's which were gifted from Nepal in the captive breeding suite. Rhino's were once found as far west as the Peshawar Valley in the Mughal Emperor Babur's day but now are extinct in Pakistan and western India



Rhino at Lal Suhanra National Park, Bahawalpur, Pakistan -




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