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Following successful experience of Cheetah Theater during past year, the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) is now developing a new theater for an endangered species, the Persian leopard. The leopard is the largest existing cat in west Asia which has a gloomy future, even inside Iran where the animal is still more abundant than the cheetahs. Meanwhile, numerous animals are killed every year which according to a recent evaluation, it is at least one animal per week. A majority of these mortalities are due to unawareness of local people which the theater is expected to be used to train communities. After more than 40 implementation in Tehran as well as local cities around the cheetah habitats, the