How Much Food A Leopard Population Needs Per Year?
Understanding food needs of carnivores, particularly the endangered Persian leopard is an essential topic among managers and experts. Effective conservation planning of predator
Understanding food needs of carnivores, particularly the endangered Persian leopard is an essential topic among managers and experts. Effective conservation planning of predator
As 6th year of celebration, Cheetah Day Festival is going to be held since 6 to 14 September. However, 2012 event is held in a different way: It is an electronic festival which is hosted by many people’s PCs.
A family of Asiatic cheetahs has been photo-trapped for the first time in north-eastern Iran. During an ongoing intensive monitoring of the cheetahs by means of camera traps in Miandasht…
A family of Asiatic cheetahs has been photo-trapped for the first time in northeastern Iran. During an ongoing intensive monitoring of the cheetahs by means of camera traps in Miandasht Wildlife Refuge, an adult cheetah in companion of her three small cubs was taken.
Recent camera trapping efforts in northeastern Iran indicate that the Asiatic cheetahs have bred in the area. Accordingly, an adult female cheetah has been photo trapped while coming to a waterhole in Miandasht Wildlife Refuge.
Iran is considered to be an arid country with low annual rainfall for majority of its eastern half where the critically endangered Asiatic cheetahs roam. Over past decades, building artificial and improving natural waterholes for desert species has been a management action to moderate this limiting factor.
Ranging across most of Africa and part of the Middle East, caracal is a medium-sized member of cat family. It occurs within majority of arid environments of central and eastern parts of Iran and is considered as the most ecologically studied lesser cat in the country.
As one of the smallest fox species in deserts of west Asia, Blanford’s or Afghan fox has recently been confirmed across a range of habitat types in Abbas Abad Wildlife Refuge, central Iran. It has been rarely studied in the wild before application of camera traps.
Born in Siahkouh National Park in spring 2010, two cheetah siblings are now roaming Ariz No Hunting Area, central Iran. Accompanied by their mom, they walked more than 130 kilometers through vast deserts of central Iran to arrive in Dare Anjir Wildlife Refuge in summer 2011. Since last winter, they are dispersing southward and now they are ranging in Ariz.