Dashkin

Dashkin is a village in Astore, Pakistan.

It is 85 km from Gilgit, the capital of Gilgit-Baltistan.

The area is rich in gemstones[citation needed] and is home to a number of rare species of wildlife, such as the Astor markhor (a species of ibex) and the snow leopard.

[3] 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.

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