d0709ebb-7fdf-41a0-b3b7-736b9d2b96a1 eng Long Ruijin ICIMOD 977-1-5275222 Nepal metadata@icimod.org https://www.icimod.org/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link ICIMOD Website 2026-02-02T14:52:13 North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 Mammal Species of Taxkorgan Nature Reserve 2018-01-18 Srijana Joshi ICIMOD Ecosystem Specialist 977-1-5275222 Srijana.Joshi@icimod.org ICIMOD. (2018). Mammal Species of Taxkorgan Nature Reserve [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.35255 This is a list of mammal species reported from Taxkorgan Nature reserve. This checklist was prepared to bridge the existing knowledge gap on Taxkorgan Nature reserve. Mammal Biodiversity Protected Area Taxkorgan China HKH-BIF Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) 1) Research on Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) niche and population assessment in Taxkorgan, Xinjiang, China; 2) Study on Population Density of Ungulates in Taxkorgan，Xinjiang，China eng biota The Taxkorgan Nature Reserve (TNR) was established in 1984 and is situated in the southwest corner of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China, at the junction of the China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan borders. The reserve is in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, within the jurisdiction of Kashgar Prefecture. The centre of the reserve lies about 265 km south of Kashgar (Kashi) City. The southwestern boundary follows the China-Pakistan border from the vicinity of the Kilik Pass southeast to just beyond Mount Qogir (K2). The northern and eastern boundaries trace various tributaries of the Yarkand river (Schaller et al. 1987). The Reserve has a total area of about 15,000 km2; the elevation ranges from below 3,000 masl to around 8000 masl. The highest point in the area is the peak of Qogir (K1) with 8,611 masl further south in Taxkorgan County. 75.50 75.50 37.00 37.00 ICIMOD 977-1-5275222 metadata@icimod.org http://rds.icimod.org:8080/hkh-bif/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link HKH-BIF Portal