Article: Persistence of Persian leopard in a buffer habitat in northeastern Iran
Collectors: Mohammad S.Farhadinia, Bagher Nezami, Fatemeh Hosseini-Zavarei and M. Valizadeh ,IUCN Cat News
Year: 2009
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Article: A preliminary baseline status of the Syrian Brown Bear Ursus arctos syriacus (Mammalia: Carnivora: Ursidae) in Golestanak, Northern Iran
Collectors: Mohammad Sadegh Farhadinia & Negin Valizadegan. Journal of Threatened Taxa
Year: 2015
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ICS Educational program and tools group went to Farhang school on Wednesday , the 25th of May 2016 , to run a workshop on “Afghanistan and Iran’s wildlife” for age groups of 7 to 16 . In this two hour educational program students got acquainted with different species of Afghanistan and Iran, their biological needs , and the threats towards some of them; through some group activities, games, conversations, and movie discussions . ICS Educational tools and program group hopes to hold more similar programs in other foreigner schools in Iran.
The Yayha Prize, an award for Iranian wardens hosted by ICS, featured in a popular family TV show on Iran’s National TV. A gift photo of Kushki, the Iranian male cheetah in captivity, by one of the ICS’ members was also shown in the show. The show, hosted by Iranian actor and comedian Rambod Javan, is believed to be one of the most watched TV shows in Iran.
Read more about the Yahya Prize here.
It was a cold Sunday morning on March 24th in 2013. Morteza Eslami and Ali Ajami – the game warden in Naybandan wildlife refuge, were climbing the mountains to install a camera trap, not even conceiving the idea that their picture could go worldwide.
In October 2013, during the first phase of Asiatic cheetah’s population monitoring programme, a cheetah appeared in one of the camera traps and later on, he was called Arash. The picture of Arash (the cheetah) caught by ICS’s camera trap was one of the best camera trap photos of Asiatic cheetah ever taken in the world.
In 2014, this picture was selected as the Overall Winner of the Research categories and Winner of the Rare Species category by BBC WILDLIFE magazine.
It should be noted that the cheetah population monitoring programme in Naybandan was done in collaboration with Department of Environment Southern Khorasan Province, Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah Project (CACP), PANTHERA and Wildlife Discovery Institute (PART). The winning photo was taken with valuable effort of Morteza Eslami and game wardens Sharafi, Mir Kalani, Ajami and HassanKhani.
But this picture was not the only winner. In Zamen-e-Ahoo National Park and Miandasht wildlife refuge, a stunning camera trap photo of Goitered gazelles by the waterhole has also been awarded Runner-up in the Animal Behaviour category in BBC Magazine list.
This success has been achieved for the first time in the country. The beautiful pictures of Iran’s wildlife in a special section of one of the most prestigious wildlife magazines in the world, is pride.
To see more photos, click here.
“A report about Persian leopard in Iran has been published on web wildlife magazine, namely as Wildlife Extra. The report is accessible through the magazine website. “
“Traditionally Iranian culture has had a long association with wildlife which is evident within many traditional rituals. The “12-animals calendar”, inherited from the Mongol invasion of the 13th century, is just an example of this relationship. Although this calendar has now been replaced by Jalali (solar) calendars the animal signs are still thriving as a symbol of the annual ceremonies. Leopard, as the twelfth animal, is the symbol of Iranian New Year (1389) which began in the spring of 2010.
Recently, Wildlife Middle East magazine has published a report about the ICS efforts to celebrate 2010 as the year of leopard in Iran. You can download “2010: A YEAR FOR THE ENDANGERED PERSIAN LEOPARD” as a pdf here.
October 2006- In collaboration with the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS), local people in Bafq protected support the educational programs to save the last remains of the Iranian cheetah inside its highest density habitat in the country.
During this educational programs which has been launched since summer 2006, there will be various activities to increase the awareness of different local target groups, including students, teachers, herders, villagers and hunters. In order to start the project, local authorities attention and collaboration have been drawn during joint sessions to present the educational programs and a local core group has been formed, composed of 2 local NGOs and representatives of different main governmental organizations.
Prior to the main public awareness campaign, 3 capacity building workshops were held by ICS, aiming to empower the people involved in this plan inside the cheetah habitats with participants from ICS, local NGOs, the Department of the Environment, Governor’s office, etc. Participants from the ICS along with their local colleagues could get many information and abilities on collaboration and interaction with local communities. During the last workshop in September 2006 in Bafq, the people got lots of knowledge on different approaches to work with local communities, stakeholders analysis, facilitating skills, different techniques for communication with people and gathering information which each skill/technique was actively practiced in teams.
Located in central province of Yazd, Bafq Protected Area has the highest density of the critically endangered Asiatic cheetah in the country with an estimated population of at least 15 animals. On the other hand, the area has been witnessed the highest human-oriented mortality among its cheetah population, at least 1.5 cheetahs per year since 1994. The Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) plans to increase local people’s knowledge about the cheetah and other species during a 2 years educational program to reduce the mortality due to lack of awareness.
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