A court in the city of Oshnavieh, northwest Iran, has sentenced a number of environmental offenders to provide food for the cheetah cub, Pirouz. Pirouz meaning victorious in Farsi was born at the Touran Wildlife Refuge in the northcentral Semnan province, on May 1st, by cesarean section. The indicted persons are obliged to provide food for the ...

Two female cheetah cubs have been found in the Turan National Park, improving hopes for the increase of the population of the species, an Iranian official said. Bahram Ali Zaheri, the director general of the Department of Environmental Protection of Semnan Province, told IRNA on Sunday that the two cheetah cubs are 16 to 20 days. The two cheetah ...