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2020-06-28 16:20
Technology comes to help Asiatic cheetah protection in Iran
TEHRAN – Asiatic cheetahs’ habitats in the country will be equipped with satellite surveillance cameras to be constantly monitored online so that protection will increase, IRNA reported.
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2020-04-07 17:54
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Asiatic cheetahs’ return to birthplace: semi-captive living or reaching end of life?
TEHRAN – The Department of Environment (DOE) is transferring three Asiatic cheetahs kept in Tehran’s Pardisan Park to Semnan province where they have been born to live the rest of their life in semi-captive conditions because they are no longer able to reproduce.
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2020-02-18 19:12
Eight Iranian conservationists get jail terms on espionage charges: Judiciary
TEHRAN - From the Judiciary’s point of view, the dossier of environmentalists is regarded as an act against national security, the Judiciary spokesman announced on Tuesday, noting a guilty definite verdict has been issued in the case of the eight conservationists on charges of spying.
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2019-12-11 18:35
Iran’s two Asiatic cheetahs reach ‘the bitter end’
TEHRAN – Two Asiatic cheetahs, kept in captivity at Tehran’s Pardisan Park, have reached the bitter end because they have lost their ability to regenerate and should be returned to nature.
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2019-10-30 19:20
Asiatic cheetahs in Pardisan Park to undergo semi-captive breeding
TEHRAN – Two Asiatic cheetahs, kept in captivity at Tehran’s Pardisan Park, will be transferred to protected areas of central Yazd province for semi-captive breeding, Kiumars Kalantari, deputy chief of the Department of Environment (DOE), has said.
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2019-08-31 19:41
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Will the world’s fastest Asiatic cheetah outrun extinction?
TEHRAN – Although Iran is the only country which can save the precious species from disappearance, conservation projects fall into a single solution of captive-breeding. Cheetah’s captive-breeding is not necessarily an inefficient plan, nonetheless concerns come up from recent unsuccessful projects. Will the endangered beauty surpass its unknown fate and escape extinction?
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2019-07-31 18:09
Artificial insemination failed on cheetah in captivity
TEHRAN – Female Asiatic cheetah, Delbar, being kept in captivity at Tehran’s Pardisan Park, has undergone artificial insemination some 100 days ago, but it turned to be unsuccessful, director of the wildlife conservation and management at the Department of Environment has said.
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2019-07-14 19:51
Asiatic cheetahs spotted in eastern Iran
TEHRAN – Two Asiatic cheetahs have been observed in Tabas county, located in South Khorasan province, eastern Iran, since the beginning of this year (March 21), head of Tabas department of environment has said.
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2019-07-01 20:17
DOE plans on live capture of cheetahs for conservation
TEHRAN – The Department of Environment (DOE) is preparing a plan on capturing two remaining Asiatic cheetahs alive for conservation and reproduction purposes, Majid Kharrazian-Moqaddam, director of the wildlife conservation and management at the DOE has said.
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2019-06-17 11:56
‘Too soon to decide cheetah kept in captivity is pregnant or not’
TEHRAN – Female Asiatic cheetah, Delbar, kept in captivity, undergone artificial insemination at Pardisan Park in Tehran earlier this year (starting on March 21), and may be pregnant but it is still too soon to determine, Majid Kharrazian-Moqaddam, director of the wildlife conservation and management at the Department of Environment has said.
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2019-02-13 21:51
$4m earmarked for Asiatic cheetah conservation
TEHRAN – A total budget of $4 million will be allocated to prevent the remaining precious species of Asiatic cheetah from extinction, through a five-year plan, deputy environment chief for Department of Environment (DOE) natural environment and biodiversity directorate has announced.