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2019-04-08 21:39
By M.A. Saki
Endorsing the stealing of Golan Heights means pushing the world toward anarchy
Donald Trump signed a proclamation on March 25 recognizing Israel’s stealing of the Golan Heights owned by Syria. Israel seized the land from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war with a support by the U.S. and certain other Western countries.
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2018-04-09 10:41
Seven substandard zoos shut down
TEHRAN – The Department of Environment has shut down seven zoos across the country which didn’t live up to the required standards set by the department, ILNA reported on Saturday.
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2017-12-16 10:18
By Farnaz Heidari
Zoos seen as saviors of endangered animals
Zoos can effectively work together to conserve some of the endangered animals. Zoos have the necessary knowledge and experience in animal care, veterinary medicine, animal behavior, reproductive biology, and genetics to establish captive animal populations of endangered animals.
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2017-04-17 08:45
By Farnaz Heidari
Why some species are kept in zoos?
Many questions arise concerning keeping animals in the zoos around the world. Richard Primack B. Primack in the book of “A primer of conservation biology” page 200 of chapter 6 wrote: “Zoos, along with affiliated universities, government wildlife departments, and conservation organizations, presently maintain 500,000 terrestrial vertebrate individuals, representing almost 8000 species and subspecies of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians." But there are some protests here in Iran against the presence of species such as Persian squirrel, brown bear and also birds such as flamingos in the zoos. What is the reason for this?
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2017/01/30
By Farnaz Heidari
White tigers attraction
Tigers used to occur in Asia as far west as Turkey, and isolated populations developed into different subspecies. The subspecies of tigers consist of Bengal tiger (Indian), South China tiger, Malayan tiger, Indochinese tiger, Sumatran tiger, Siberian tiger (Amur), Bali tiger, Javan tiger, and Caspian tiger (Hyrcanian). The last three subspecies are extinct. Along with the Bengal tiger, the white tiger is considered to be the second largest tiger in the world after the Siberian tiger. But what is the white tiger?
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2016-12-10 21:05
Picture of the day
Nader Noori, and environmentalist who holds a degree in civil engineering, along with his American wife and four children are in charge of an exceptional zoo in Qazvin province called “Qazvin nature village” which is a research and a rehabilitation center. The zoo is stretching over 10 hectares of land with various species receiving professional care. TehranTimes/ Farhad Safari
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2016-10-24 09:35
By Farnaz Heidari
Caracal, wildlife great hunter
Caracal (Caracal caracal) is a native species in Iran and some other countries of southwest Asia into India. This species also have broadly distribution in Central Asia and Africa. The historical range of the Caracal mirrors that of the cheetah, and both coincide with the distribution of several small desert gazelles.
