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How Iran is destroying its once thriving environmental movement

Peter Schwartstein, November2020 "The Iranian environmental movement largely owes its existence to one man: Eskandar Firouz, a...

The environmental limitations and future of the Asiatic cheetah in Iran

By Hormoz Asadi, 1997 In 1997, Hormoz Asadi located less than 100 Asiatic Cheetahs in Iran in the report for UNDP Cat Specialist...

Ecology and conservation of the Asiatic cheetah in Miandasht Mohammad Farhadinia

This project and article was dedicated to our beloved, cheetah, Marita! In this 2007 article, Dr. Mohammad S.Farhadinia documents the...

BBC Wildlife Magazine: Caught in the Crossfire

by James Fair “There was a poster of a cheetah behind the counter,” he says. “It was a picture of a captive animal from Tehran Zoo that...

The world’s fastest animal is in a race for survival in Iran

"Marita galvanized interest in the fate of the species. The date of her death, Aug. 30, was designated National Cheetah Day. Iran issued...

Asiatic Cheetah Conservation & Catching Tiger Poachers in India

Hormoz Asadi, was the first Iranian member of the International Union of Conservation for Nature (IUCN) Cat Specialist Group. In 1997, in...

How the Iranian Environment Informed a Cheetah Children's Book

Hormoz is a Persian name. Derived from the word Ormozd (330 B.C), it refers to Ahura Mazda (the highest spirit in the Zoroastrian faith),...

How You Can Save the Cheetah

If you really like cheetahs - don't "Like" social media posts of people with their “pet” cheetahs! by Patricia Tricorache (reprinted with...

Somaliland starts work on 800ha cheetah sanctuary

A Namibian wildlife organisation has broken ground in Somaliland on a rescue centre for cheetahs. Source The Cheetah Conservation Fund...

Cheetah collared at Selati Reserve

Last Friday, April 1, 2022, the Selati Wilderness Foundation (SWF) successfully collared one of their two male cheetahs in the Selati...

Release of wild cheetahs in Mozambique could be answer to conservation of the species, biologists sa

New conservation methods could help to save the species. By Julia Jacobo - ABC News Thousands of feet in the air, Willem Briers-Louw, a...

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