National congress on wildlife diseases, conservation to be held
Tehran Times – Tehran will play host to the first national congress on wildlife diseases and conservation which will be held in…
Tag Archives: Iran’s wildlife
Dogs’ overpopulation, a major threat to the wildlife
MNA – Majid Kharrazian-Moqaddam, director of the wildlife conservation and management at the Department of Environment, has warned that measures to control…
Three Persian leopards, one cheetah spotted in Semnan
MNA – Three Persian leopards and an Asiatic cheetah have been spotted in Khar Turan National Park of Shahroud, Semnan province, a…
Flamingos, other wildlife return to Iran wetlands
Radio Farda – Migratory flamingos have returned to wetlands near Isfahan, central Iran, following substantial rainfalls in the area, reported official news…
Will recently returned Persian lion survive threats once pushed it toward extinction?
MNA | Faranak Bakhtiari: Long-lost Persian lion is back to the country to conserve the rare species by reproduction, the species which…
Persian leopard spotted in Alborz province
MNA – A Persian leopard has been spotted in the mountainous habitats of Taleghan county in Alborz province, northwest of Tehran. According…
Photos: Iranian artist uses plastic bags to give environmental warning
Honarmand On Line.ir: Damages inflicted on the environment and human’s negative impacts on the nature and the wild life were the main…
Persian Leopard Borzou migrates to Turkmenistan
IFP – An old male Persian leopard named Borzou has moved 20 kilometers from the Iranian border to enter Turkmenistan. This is…
Iran’s DOE to exhaust all possibilities to save Asiatic Cheetah from extinction
Financial Tribune – The third phase of the Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah Project, whose draft plan is soon to be reviewed by…
UN upholds support for cheetah conservation
Financial Tribune – A top environmental official dismissed reports of a disruption in the UN’s financial support for the Asiatic cheetah protection…
Photos: Endangered Persian onager (Zebra)
Tasnim | Erfan Samanfar: The Persian onager, also called the Persian zebra, is a subspecies of onager (Asiatic wild ass) native to…
2 sentenced to community service on animal cruelty
Financial Tribune – A court in Hurand, East Azarbaijan Province, has sentenced two animal abusers to 500 hours of community service. “The…
Genetic admixture to augment wildlife population in Hamedan
Financial Tribune – A project to stimulate genetic admixture among the wildlife species in Lashgardar Protected Area in Malayer, Hamedan Province, will…
Wildlife vanishing in Kerman
Financial Tribune- The extreme arid climate dominating the southeastern province of Kerman could destroy over 80% of the wildlife diversity by mid-fall…
One Asiatic cheetah spotted in Qasr-e Shirin
MNA – Acting Governor of Qasr-e Shirin in Kermanshah province said an Asiatic cheetah has been spotted by Army forces stationed in…
Photos: Storks bring peace, luck to Iran’s Kurdistan
IFP- Bilo, a small village in Western Iran, is the habitat of storks, and is widely known as the home of these…
One million birds killed illegally every year at a wildlife site in Iran
The Guardian | Robin McKie: A million wild birds a year are now being killed illegally at a single wildlife site in Iran.…
Semi-captive breeding for Asiatic Cheetahs
Financial Tribune- A semi-natural habitat will be created for Asiatic Cheetahs in the Ardakan County of Yazd Province to facilitate the semi-captive…
10 Persian Leopards spotted in Fars Nat’l Park
Financial Tribune- A survey conducted to estimate the Persian leopard’s population has revealed that at least 10 were living in Bamou National…
New Asiatic cheetahs spotted in Iran
Financial Tribune- Four Asiatic cheetahs were sighted in Touran Biosphere Reserve in Shahroud, Semnan Province, early this week, a senior environmental official…
Suspects sought in Leopard deaths
Financial Tribune- Law-enforcement officials in Mazandaran Province are searching for poachers responsible for the death of two rare Persian Leopards, which were…
Persian Leopard making swift recovery in Tehran
Financial Tribune- A rare female Persian leopard that had undergone spinal surgery in February is recovering so well that authorities plan to…
Persian Leopard sighted in S. Khorasan
Financial Tribune- An image of a Persian leopard has been captured by camera traps in Shaskouh Protected Area in South Khorasan Province.…
World Wildlife Day: Protect endangered species
Tasnim l Erfan Samanfar: In December 2013, at its 68th session, the UN General Assembly proclaimed March 3, the day of signature…
Cultural activity needed to save endangered animal species
IFP- “The majority of people who damage the environment just consider their own personal advantage with no regard for their national identity…
Cheetah conservation experts mull artificial insemination
Financial Tribune- Delbar, the female Asiatic cheetah on whom everyone has pinned hope to ensure the survival of her species, might have…
Cheetah nearer to extinction than previously thought
Financial Tribune- The cheetah’s dramatic decline has prompted calls for the animal’s status to be downgraded from “vulnerable” to “endangered” on the…
Sea Saviors: Iranian activists rescue and release rare Caspian seal
Sputnik News– Iranian activists at a special rehabilitation center on the island of Ashur Ada treat wounded and weakened Caspian seals. Recently,…
DOE seeks severe punishment for Leopard poacher
The Department of Environment is seeking the maximum punishment for a poacher charged with killing a Persian leopard cub in Mazandaran Province.…
Crackdown on negligent animal breeders
Almost 5,000 hectares of national property, which were occupied for breeding wild animal species, have been retrieved by the Department of Environment…
Sustaining our wildlife
Every year on June 5, we commemorate World Environment Day and pledge to double our efforts to save the environment from ourselves.…
Two golden eaglets die in Lorestan
Two golden eaglets (immature young of an eagle) which were trapped live by the locals in Aligoudarz County, Lorestan Province, died due…
24/7 protection for orphaned cheetah
An orphaned Asiatic cheetah cub has been under 24-hour surveillance in its natural habitat by local Iranian rangers ever since its mother…
“Guilty” leopard exonerated
Ali Teymouri, director of the Hunting and Fishing Office at the Department of Environment has denied claims that a leopard attacked and…
Missing deer reportedly alive
Most of the deer which were displaced from a breeding site in Khuzestan Province following heavy flooding last month are believed to…
Yazd protected areas ravaged by drought
Damage caused by drought in the protected areas of Yazd Province is estimated at close to 940 billion rials ($27.5 million) since…
Persian leopards in Tandooreh National Park are thriving
Images captured on camera of female leopards with their cubs show efforts to protect the big cats are succeeding in Tandooreh National…
Official ban on dealing wildlife species finalized
TEHRAN, Jun.25 (MNA) – The Director-General of Department of Environmental Protection and Hunting and Fishing Management has announced ban on any dealing,…
Persian leopard death toll hits 12
Half-eaten remains of an endangered Persian leopard were found in Sorkhabad Protected Area in Zanjan Province last week, adding to the death…
Quarantined Amur tiger to be homed in Qazvin
The conundrum concerning the fate of the quarantined Amur tiger may be coming to a happy ending. Recently, officials at the Department…