The Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area is a World Heritage property in Kullu district

Background

The World Heritage Committee inscribed the Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (x), the criterion for the most important natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity.
The Great Himalayan National Park is located in the Kullu District of Himachal Pradesh.
The Conservation Area covers 905.40 sq km and takes in the Great Himalayan National Park itself at 754.4 sq km together with the Sainj Wildlife Sanctuary at 90 sq km and the Tirthan Wildlife Sanctuary at 61 sq km.
It includes the upper mountain glacial and snow melt water sources of the westerly flowing Jiwa Nal, Sainj and Tirthan Rivers and of the north-westerly flowing Parvati River.
Standing at the confluence of the Oriental and Palaearctic realms, it is home to rare and threatened species including the Western Tragopan, the Chir Pheasant, the Snow Leopard, the Himalayan Musk Deer, the Asiatic Black Bear, the Himalayan Tahr, the Blue Sheep and the Serow.
Its boundaries are contiguous with Khirganga National Park at 710 sq km, Pin Valley National Park at 675 sq km in the Trans-Himalaya, the Rupi-Bhabha Wildlife Sanctuary at 503 sq km and the Kanawar Wildlife Sanctuary at 61 sq km.