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Hemis National Park (or Hemis High Altitude National Park) is a high altitude national park in the eastern Ladakh region of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India. World famous for being the best place to see the snow leopard in the wild, it is believed to have the highest density of snow leopards of any protected area in the world.〔http://www.cloudbirders.com/tripreport/repository/BARUAH_India_03_2014.pdf〕 It is the only national park in India north of the Himalayas, the largest notified protected area in India (and thus the largest national park of India), and is the second largest contiguous protected area after the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve and surrounding protected areas. The park is home to a number of species of endangered mammals including the snow leopard. Hemis National Park is India's only protected area inside the Palearctic ecozone, outside the Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary northeast of Hemis, and the proposed Tso Lhamo Cold Desert Conservation Area in North Sikkim. The park is bounded on the north by the banks of the Indus River, and includes the cachements of Markha, Sumdah and Rumbak, and parts of the Zanskar Range. ==History== The park was founded in 1981 by protecting the Rumbak and Markha catchments, an area of about . It grew in 1988 to around , by incorporating neighboring lands.〔Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environment By G R Chhatwal, D K Pandey, K K Nanda Published by Anmol Publications PVT. LTD., 1988 (ISBN 8170411009), (ISBN 9788170411000)〕 It increased again in 1990 to ,〔http://www.snowleopardnetwork.org/bibliography/anlp99.htm〕 and is the largest national park in South Asia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hemis National Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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