In order to celebrate Environment Day, residents of five main villages around Anguran Wildlife Refuge were educated. The educational program was aimed to train local people who are co-existing with the area’s wildlife, especially lynx.
Local hunters in Kalmand Protected Area, central Iran attended in a half-day festival in the city of Mehriz. Organized by Yazd Provincial Office of Iranian Department of Environment, the festival was opened by local high-ranking authorities to spread importance of wildlife protection to the local hunters.
Iran hosts to six different canids which five species were filmed in Abbasabad. Initiated since early summer 2009,
Coincidence of Solar year and Mongolian horoscopy (2010: leopard year) was a wonderful opportunity to highlight Persian leopard as one of the most endangered mammals of Iran. Accordingly, various plans were established to increase public awareness about Persian leopard status in Iran as well as abroad.
Spring was started for the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) with outstanding news: An adult female was again on film! The ICS is working on the Persian leopards in northern Iran since 2006 and recently, the Iranian National TV has contracted a wildlife documentary movie about this area
The Eurasian lynx is widely distributed in Asia, but is one of the least-known cats. Despite being the largest small cat in Iran, general information about lynx previously consisted of a few historical records and anecdotal observations. Since 2006, the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) has initiated surveys to determine the species status in Iran.
In 2011, the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) celebrates its 10th birthday. Established in 2001, the ICS was launched by three enthusiastic students all committed to do something for the vanishing Asiatic cheetahs in Iran. The animal had a gloomy status at those years.
Local people around Kalmand Protected Area were arranged to visit wildlife habitat to learn about the cheetah, onager and other wildlife species.