Dashkin

{{Short description|Village in Astore, Pakistan}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2021}} {{coord|35|29|N|74|46|E|display=title|region:PK_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}} '''Dashkin''' is a village in Astore, Pakistan. It is 85 km from Gilgit, the capital of Gilgit-Baltistan. It has over 5,000 inhabitants, primarily farmers and herdsmen.

The area is rich in gemstones{{cn|date=January 2023}} and is home to a number of rare species of wildlife, such as the Astor markhor (a subspecies of markhor) and the snow leopard.<ref>https://www.huntsmanhome.com/pakistan/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112134859/https://www.huntsmanhome.com/pakistan/ |date=2021-01-12 }}; https://issuu.com/nazishmunir/docs/conservation_chronicles_2020; Sheraz Taimouri https://www.thegef.org/sites/default/files/web-documents/10529_BD_PIF_v1.pdf</ref> Dofana Mountain and several forests are nearby.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Rao |first=Abdul Latif |last2=Marwat |first2=Abdul Hamid |date=2003 |title=NASSD Background Paper: Forestry |url=https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/2003-095_6.pdf |access-date=2 March 2026 |website=IUCN |isbn=969-8141-57-X}}</ref> Hunting permits are available.<ref>http://www.wilddocu.de/flare-horned-markhor-capra-falconeri-falconeri/; https://www.huntsmanhome.com/pakistan/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112134859/https://www.huntsmanhome.com/pakistan/ |date=2021-01-12 }}</ref>

In 2003, the International Union of Nature Conservation launched a pilot to test the concept of community-based forest management in the Dashkin–Mushkin–Tarbuling Forest as part of the Mountain Areas Conservancy Project, an initiative aimed at sustaining biodiversity in Karakoram-Hindu Kush in the western Himalayan mountains in northern Pakistan.<ref name=":0" /><ref>https://www.iucn.org/sites/dev/files/import/downloads/nasoed.pdf{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.slideshare.net/zubeditufail/northern-areas-state-of-environment-and-development-plan|title=Northern areas: State of Environment and Development Plan|date=12 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegef.org/project/mountain-areas-conservancy-project-macp|title=Mountain Areas Conservancy Project (MACP)}}{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>

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Category:Populated places in Astore District