Abstract
Establishing national parks and protected areas without considering necessary
management and local community needs often leads to human-wildlife conflicts.
One such case is the Deosai National Park (DNP) in Northern Pakistan. This
paper explores and discusses conflicts that developed between local
communities and their access to natural resources following the establishment
of DNP in 1993. It also assesses how these conflicts were resolved through a
Management Plan implemented in DNP since 2004. The Management Plan
catered to local community needs and sensitivities as well as protection of
endangered species such as the Himalayan brown bear. After the communitybased conservation control practices were implemented, the population of the
endangered Asiatic brown bear has stabilized in DNP. In view of the success of
community centered conservation control practices in DNP, the paper,
therefore, suggests that there is a strong need to replicate these conservation
control practices in parks and protected areas across Pakistan.
Kashif Saeed Khan, Sajjad Ahmad Jan. (2017) Deosai National Park: Conservation, Control and Conflicts, Putaj Humanities And Social Science, Volume-24, Issue-1.
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