According to experts, the current penalties do not provide a significant deterrent effect for wildlife crimes, so it has been decided to triple them, an official with the Department of Environment has said.

Iran, a fertile female Asiatic cheetah who lately gave birth to three cubs, has the ability to reproduce for at least the next 5 years, Ali Salajeqeh, head of the Department of Environment (DOE), has stated. The endangered female cheetah gave birth to three cubs in captivity, for the first time for the subspecies.The cubs were born at the Touran ...

Tasnim | Saeid Toluei: North Khorasan is a province northeast of Iran and has many natural attractions, including Miandasht wildlife refuge, which is a living place of Asiatic Cheetah.      ...

Tasnim An interesting video has emerged showing an Iranian cheetah cub stealing a wildlife park rangers shoe outside his guarding post in the protected area of Seidowa Wildlife Refuge in Irans northeastern Semnan province. The video emerged on a social media page associated with the Iranian Environmental Protection Agency showing a trio family of ...

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 ...

MNA The head of the provincial office of the Department of Environment Abbas-Ali Damangir announced that the image of 14 cheetahs was recorded in Khar Turan National Park of Shahroud, Semnan province. The number proves that Khar Turan National Park is very valuable because the images can be used to devise more coordinate plans for the ...

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 Acting Governor of Qasr-e Shirin in Kermanshah province said an Asiatic cheetah has been spotted by Army forces stationed in the County on Saturday. Moradali Tatar said army forces stationed in the area reported on Saturday the sighting of an Asiatic Cheetah in Hedayat village near Tangeh Hammam in Qasr-e Shirin County in west of Iran. He ...

MNA A member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) told MNA on Mon. that despite all efforts, the conservation of the Asiatic cheetah project in Iran has practically failed. Mohammad Sadegh Farhadinia, a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), told Mehr News correspondent that the number of ...

Financial Tribune- A semi-natural habitat will be created for Asiatic Cheetahs in the Ardakan County of Yazd Province to facilitate the semi-captive breeding of the engangered animal. According to Hassan Akbari, a deputy at the provincial office of the Department of Environment, about 35,000 hectares of Darreh Anjir Wildlife Refuge have been designated ...

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 ...

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 ...

MNA- Members of an Iranian family are using their car, marked with Asiatic [or Iranian] Cheetah slogans, to promote the culture of environmental protection and prevent the extinction of wildlife species, this animal in particular, by travelling to different Iranian provinces in the form of a caravan. According to a Farsi report by Mehr, the head ...

Financial Tribune- Delbar, the female Asiatic cheetah on whom everyone has pinned hope to ensure the survival of her species, might have to undergo artificial insemination. "There is still a chance for natural conception but we're now exploring other options," Iman Memarian, lead veterinarian of the Conservation of the Asiatic Cheetah Project, told ...

Tehran Times- Increasing the fine for killing leopards by 16 times to 800 million rials (nearly $20,000) and insuring the animals against any possible threat has resulted in fewer casualties in Iran, IRNA news agency reported. From 2005 to 2014 some 156 leopards were killed in Iran, 20 leopards a year on average, which decreased to 14 over the last ...

Financial Tribune- The cheetahs dramatic decline has prompted calls for the animals status to be downgraded from vulnerable to endangered on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of threatened species. Urgent action is needed to stop the cheetahthe worlds fastest land animalbecoming extinct, experts have warned, the Guardian ...