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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Five-year-old Veera, a South African cheetah, gave birth to the two cubs on Tuesday, said Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, sharing a photo of the newborns on X.

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 ...