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I- Background Gilgit Baltistan • Government: Self-governing territory underPakistani control • Area: 72,971 sq. km • 1% Agriculture land 1%, mountains, rivers and glaciers (66%), rangelands (23%) and forest (4%) (IUCN, 2002) • Population: 2 million • Districts: 7 • Literacy rate: 72% • Highest mountains: K2( Mount Godwin Austan II-Yak Habitat in Gilgit Baltistan The yak (Bos grunniens and Bos mutus) is a long-haired mamal found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia. Yak is locally named as 'Dong' in Gilgit Baltistan, the male is popularly known as yak and the female is called yakmo. The Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) and Pamir mountain tract are key yak habitat where total global yak population as reported by FAO (2003) was 14.2 million of which 93% were in China, about 0.04% in Mongolia and 0.01% in Gilgit Baltistan. III-Importance of Yak • Dairy Products (Mil