MNA | Faranak Bakhtiari: Long-lost Persian lion is back to the country to conserve the rare species by reproduction, the species which once gone extinct due to excessive hunting and habitat loss, so the question arises, will the endangered species survive the threats which once pushed it through eradication?
Disappeared for 80 years, Persian ...
MNA A Persian leopard will undergo artificial insemination in Tehran Zoological Garden next week, done for the first time in the country.
"We have a Persian leopard that unfortunately has lost one hand in a hunting trap in Golestan province, and the Tehran Zoological Garden has taken care of this very unrivaled leopard since then," Chief vet of ...
FNA - The number of Caspian seals has sharply reduced by 90% over the past 30 years, officials at Irans Department of Environment (DoE) said, adding that the organization is working on a national action plan to preserve the endangered species.
Deputy Director of DoEs Marine Environment Department Parvin Farshchi said on Saturday that, in cooperation ...
MNA A Persian leopard has been spotted in the mountainous habitats of Taleghan county in Alborz province, northwest of Tehran.
According to Fardin Hakimi, chief of the Alborz province department of environment (DoE), the image of the rare species was captured by camera traps in the no-hunting area on Sunday.
The official said this is the third ...
MNA Researchers at the Biotechnology Research Center at Royan Institute have cloned Asiatic cheetah embryos, which await the required funding to be transplantedinto host mothers, according to the head of the research center.
Head of Biotechnology Research Center at Royan Institute, Dr. Mohammad Hossein Nasr-Esfahani, talked to Mehr News ...
Financial Tribune - The third phase of the Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah Project, whose draft plan is soon to be reviewed by the Department of Environment and the United Nations Development Program, aims to adopt all alternative methods of breeding the wild cat besides programs to protect it in its habitat.
The CACP is a program jointly undertaken ...
Financial Tribune - A top environmental official dismissed reports of a disruption in the UN's financial support for the Asiatic cheetah protection program led by Iran's Department of Environment.
"The relationship between the United Nations Development Program and the cheetah conservation initiative has never been cut, despite assumptions to the ...
Tasnim | Erfan Samanfar: The Persian onager, also called the Persian zebra, is a subspecies of onager (Asiatic wild ass) native to Iran. It is listed as Endangered with no more than 600 individuals left in the wild and only 30 individuals living within North American institutions.
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Financial Tribune - A court in Hurand, East Azarbaijan Province, has sentenced two animal abusers to 500 hours of community service.
"The two were convicted of animal cruelty and sentenced to do 500 hours of unpaid environmental service, including the study and distribution of books about wildlife protection," an official with the provincial office ...
IFP - A female Asiatic cheetah and her four cubs were recently observed by the National park rangers in the protected area of Touran Wildlife Refuge in Irans Semnan province.
Spotting the cute family was a great news for those concerned about the highly-endangered species.
Asiatic cheetah is a highly endangered subspecies of which only ...
MNA Four Asiatic cheetahs were sighted in Touran Biosphere Reserve in Shahroud, Semnan Province, on Monday morning,a senior environmental official told MNA.
Speaking to Mehr News correspondent, Abbas-Ali Damangir, the head of the provincial office of the Department of Environment said the four Asiatic Cheetahs have been spotted and captured on ...
The Guardian | Robin McKie: A million wild birds a year are now being killed illegally at a single wildlife site inIran. That is the stark warning from conservationists who say highly endangered migratory species face being wiped out in the near future there unless urgent action is taken.
In a letter last week to the journalScience, the conservationists ...
ISNA | Alireza Bahrami: A group of Tehran citizens have joined the rangers in Lavasanat mountain hills to provide fodder for such animals as wild goats, goats and ewes who cannot find enough food in the winter.
There are two villages namely Kond Olya and Kond Sofla located in Shemiranat County, Tehran Province. In the vicinity of these villages ...
Financial Tribune- As heavy snow blankets much of the country and wild animals are likely to move toward urban areas in search of food and water, the Department of Environment has called on the public to avoid hunting or hurting these animals, and report any case of injured wildlife to environmental authorities.
At the sight of a stray or injured ...
MNA Head of the Asiatic Cheetah Conservation Project said a team of experts from France will come to Iran in a few weeks to perform artificial insemination on the last surviving Asiatic cheetahs, Koushki and Delbar.
Houman Jokar, head of the Asiatic Cheetah Conservation Project, told Mehr News correspondent on Wednesday that due to Koushkis old ...
The Guardian | Robin McKie: Conservationists have warned that the Asiatic cheetah is on the threshold of extinction following a UN decision to pull funding from conservation efforts to protect it.
Fewer than 50 of the critically endangered carnivores are thought to be left in the wild all of them inIran and scientists fear that without urgent intervention ...
Financial Tribune- Four Asiatic cheetahs were sighted in Touran Biosphere Reserve in Shahroud, Semnan Province, early this week, a senior environmental official said.
Speaking to Mehr News Agency, Abbas-Ali Damangir, the head of the provincial office of the Department of Environment, said all four sightings have been recorded by camera traps in ...
Financial Tribune- The western Lorestan Province is seeing fewer Persian leopards these days, which raises concern about the extinction of the rare animal.
According to a report by YJC, after Asiatic lion and Caspian tiger disappeared, the at-risk Persian leopards remain the biggest cat species in Iran, enhancing the animal's ecological value and ...
Outlook India- Iranian environmentalists have mobilised to protect the world's last Asiatic cheetahs, estimated to number just 50 and faced with the threats of becoming roadkill, a shortage of prey and farmers' dogs.
"The last time our photo traps caught a cheetah here, it was two years ago. But we're sure they are still in the region," said Rajab ...
Financial Tribune- A rare female Persian leopard that had undergone spinal surgery in February is recovering so well that authorities plan to move her to a bigger area before releasing her back into the wild.
Ali Teymouri, director of the Hunting and Fishing Office at the Department of Environment, said if the leopard continues to show physical ...
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