The Asiatic cheetah is one of the rarest mammals on earth. Fewer than 100 survive in the wild, and all of them are confined to Iran’s central desert, where I deployed camera traps. One of them ...

Since past 60 years, Iran is home to the last known population of Asiatic cheetah, which once roamed across vast ranges of west and south Asian countries, from the Middle East to India.

Only 7,100 cheetahs are left in the wild, almost all of them in Africa. The Asiatic cheetah, which once roamed parts of India, is now only found in Iran, where there are thought to be about 50 left.

Ansari and Taj signed the agreement on maintaining support for the Asiatic cheetah species by establishing an environmental and sustainable development committee in the Football Federation and ...

and safeguarding their habitats have increased the number of cheetahs, IRIB quoted Zohrabi, as saying in November 2024. Highlighting the key role of public participation in the conservation of Asiatic ...

Asiatic cheetahs became extinct in India in the late 1940s because of excessive hunting and loss of habitat. In 2020 India's Supreme Court ruled that African cheetahs, a different subspecies ...

In Iran, a small population of Asiatic cheetahs also faces the threat of extinction. In 2019, SC approved the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)’s proposal to reintroduce African ...