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Research

Less than One Third of Bear Habitat in Lorestan Protected

by مدیر سایت April 8, 2013
written by مدیر سایت 2 minutes read

“Iran is home to two species of bears, Asiatic black bear and brown bear which the latter ranges across vast areas of northern and western country. However, proper investigation has been rarely conducted on the brown bears, particularly across western mountains of Zagros. Accordingly, the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) initiated a pilot project in Lorestan province which has a central location in western country to provide scientific knowledge for protection of two large carnivores, brown bear and Persian leopard.

According to predictive modeling based on data gathered from 156 game wardens and hunters across the province, no more than 20% of Lorestan’s territory is considered to be suitable for the brown bears while official protection has been granted to only one third of the bear range.
Research findings indicate that the brown bears prefer habitats far from human settlements and tend to habitats with higher slope and elevation. Moreover, bears’ litter size in summer was estimated to be around 2, similar to other known bear populations in Iran.

Establishment of new reserves in identified bear habitats, particularly southern province is the highest priority for bear protection, based on the research findings. In the meantime, some parts of the province seem to be seasonal receivers of the bears, probably from neighboring provinces (mainly during summer and spring, when bear patrol large areas). So, these areas, particularly southwestern Lorestan need to establish trans-provincial efforts to protect the species.

Also, monitoring bear status is highly recommended across the province through systematic collection of records and casualties, centralized in Lorestan province Department of Environment. The present project has established a central database for this purpose and local experts can continue data gathering to monitor trends and dynamics.

Lorestan is a historic province of western Iran, amidst the Zagros Mountains with a human population of 1,716,527 covering an area of 28,392 km². Lorestan bear project was carried out by the Iranian Cheetah Society and Lorestan office of Department of Environment with financial support from Dutch “Alertis Fund for Bear and Nature Conservation” and logistic support of the Iran Department of Environment.
 


A brown bear poached in recent years, this photo was obtained from Lorestan Department of Environment who arrested the poacher based on this short clip taken by his cell phone


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April 8, 2013 0 comments
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Educational Theater

A Busy Winter in Tehran Zoo

by مدیر سایت March 17, 2013
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read

“Past winter was busy for the ICS theater team which was actively running an outreach program to raise awareness about Persian leopard and Asiatic cheetah in the capital. Every weekend, the ICS theater team implemented two different theaters, one targeting the cheetah and the other talking about the leopards for the zoo visitors. Besides educational programs in Tehran, the ICS has various community-based programs to conserve the Asiatic cheetahs and the Persian leopards across their range in Iran.  

You can browse the “Theater Image Report” to learn more about winter activities in the zoo.

After rebuilding to enhance animal welfare, the Tehran zoo which is the main menagerie in the country is now an educational place for the capital citizens to learn more about the country’s vanishing wildlife. Presently, a variety of Iranian cats are kept in the zoo, including the Persian leopard which its front is the theater scene for the ICS group. The ICS theater team is grateful to the Tehran Zoo authorities as well as Saman Golriz (Iran TV master chef) for their cooperation and support during the winter program.

 

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March 17, 2013 0 comments
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ICS News

Saving Big Cats and Wild Dogs Campaign

by مدیر سایت February 13, 2013
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“People’s Trust for Endangered Species” has been supporting the Iranian Cheetah Society for a number of years through its worldwide grants programme. This work on Persian leopards is an important part of PTES’ wider ‘Saving Big Cats and Wild Dogs’ campaign focusing on the world’s most threatened carnivores. Please visit www.savingcatsanddogs.org for the latest on carnivore conservation across the globe and how you can help.“

February 13, 2013 0 comments
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Sharing Research Findings with Decision-Makers in Yazd

by مدیر سایت January 25, 2013
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read

After one year of cheetah monitoring program in central Iran, research findings were shared with regional experts and decision-makers in order to be applied in protection measures. Game wardens, reserves authorities and university professors attended in a half-day workshop in Yazd to exchange expertise and experiences based on intensive monitoring efforts they were involved. ICS experts presented analysis of the first year of camera trapping programs across various reserves in Yazd province on population of the cheetahs and the leopards, their prey and habitat requirements, etc.

Accordingly, it was concluded that around 2/3 of the cheetah identified during past decade in Iran have been confirmed in Yazd province. Also, patterns of sharing land between the cheetahs and other rivals were discussed. Since December 2011, a joint program has been launching in multiple reserves in central Iran by the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) and Yazd Department of Environment with collaboration of CACP and Panthera to explore various ecological aspects of the carnivores, including the critically Asiatic cheetah. Six reserves have been planned to host the program until summer 2013.

January 25, 2013 0 comments
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Education and Capacity Building

Conservation Theaters in Tehran Zoo

by مدیر سایت January 11, 2013
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read

“Tehran Zoo hosts the ICS theater team during current winter to raise awareness about Persian leopard and Asiatic cheetah among visitors. Every weekend, the ICS theater team is based in the zoo to implement two different theaters, one targeting the cheetah and the other talking about the leopards. Besides educational programs in Tehran, the ICS has various community-based programs to conserve the Asiatic cheetahs and the Persian leopards across their range in Iran.

After rebuilding to enhance animal welfare, the Tehran zoo which is the main menagerie in the country is now an educational place for the capital citizens to learn more about the country’s vanishing wildlife. Presently, a variety of Iranian cats are kept in the zoo, including the Persian leopard which its front is the
theater scene for the ICS group.
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Asiatic Cheetah Conservation ProgramResearch

Finding Cheetahs in Southeastern Iran

by مدیر سایت December 13, 2012
written by مدیر سایت 2 minutes read

“Southeastern Iran has been always supposed to hold the Asiatic cheetahs; however, no proper survey has ever been conducted in this part of the country to assess the species status.

Accordingly, as part of the cheetah monitoring program initiated since late 2011 in Iran to evaluate the Asiatic cheetahs, the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) has launched a new survey in Darband Ravar Wildlife Refuge, Kerman province in partnership with Kerman Department of Environment by means of camera traps shared by Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah Project and Panthera. The area which is the southeastern-most reserve where the cheetahs have been confirmed in the country has been recently enhanced to Wildlife Refuge due to cheetah reports. It was first notified as a cheetah site in 2008 when an adult male was killed in road incident, then a few months later, a coalition of two males were found to be poisoned some 70 kilometers far from the road incident location, indicating high percentage of Ravar to be patrolled by the cheetahs.
Accordingly, Kerman DoE invested more on the area to protect it which is the closest reserve to Pakistan where once hosted the Asiatic cheetahs. Moreover, community-based programs have been also implemented in Ravar, including conservation education program by the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS).

Since early fall 2012, the ICS’ experts are surveying the area while training game wardens for monitoring
skills. However, unlike other cheetah habitats in the country, it is not an easy area to do field surveys, because it is near the border and has a high chance of encountering drug smuggling caravans. So, 8 camera traps have been deployed so far and gradual increase in number and area of coverage is planned. We are hopeful that we could find reliable evidence of the species as well as Persian leopard before the coming spring.

 

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December 13, 2012 0 comments
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Asiatic Cheetah Conservation ProgramResearch

Felids fighting for survival

by مدیر سایت December 3, 2012
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read

Latest issue of Current Biology has published a feature on big cats conservation, namely as “Felids fighting for survival”, authored by Michael Gross who is a science writer based at Oxford. Cat-like carnivores conquered the globe and became top predators on five continents. Today, however, most of the 37 surviving species are threatened, including the iconic species of large, roaring cats.

The article covers a variety of the most endangered cats in the world, including tigers, jaguars, Amur and Arabian leopards and Asiatic cheetahs which the latter is now considered to be the second rarest cat in the world.

“The government has spent years of working to save the creature as the symbol of wildlife in the country,” ICS’ Mohammad Farhadinia explains. “Presently, the Asiatic cheetahs have been reported from more than 15 different areas, all have been upgraded as a protected area. However, their numbers are so low that no more than 70 individuals can be expected for the entire country, meaning for the entire Asian continent, making it the second most critically endangered cat in the world, just after the Amur leopard. “

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Asiatic cheetah in Ariz No Hunting Area, central Iran in summer 2012(ICS/YazdDoE/CACP/Panthera)

December 3, 2012 0 comments
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ICS in News

Asiatic Cheetahs on Nat Geo Magazine

by مدیر سایت November 7, 2012
written by مدیر سایت 2 minutes read

“National Geographic magazine published extraordinary new images of wild Asiatic cheetahs in Iran in November 2012. Unlike to African cheetahs, Iranian cats are virtually invisible. Intensely shy, scattered like grains of sand over Iran’s vast central plateau, and hovering on the edge of extinction, they are essentially impossible to see. However, SLR camera traps deployed by Nat Geo photographer Frans Lanting in places where are monitored by Iranian biologists have resulted in high quality images of the species from remote and arid environments in the Iranian deserts. It was a partnership between Nat Geo, Iran DoE’ CACP, PWF and Panthera.

Nat Geo article is an important event to raise awareness about the cheetahs in Iran as well as abroad. Formerly, the animals were not enough known among local people, so they were regularly killed because of unawareness and fear among people who supposed the animal as an enemy to themselves and/or their ownership. Presently, word of the cheetah has been spread among people in majority of the country, resulting less human-caused mortality due to above-mentioned reason. However, the cheetahs roam across large intact landscapes which remind us that still we need to promote the knowledge among communities. We are currently taping a new documentary of the Asiatic Cheetah so people can learn more about its gloomy status. Recently, the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) has established a page in youtubeto share latest films we caught using camera traps from the cheetahs in Iran.

Asiatic cheetahs are one of the rarest mammals in the world, ranked the second more endangered cats in the world, chasing the Amur leopard. Desert and arid lands of eastern half of Iran hosts these elusive animals which despite of some 10 years ago, today are considered as one of the most intensively studied species in Iran. However, everybody should think about bringing research in balance with action.

November 7, 2012 0 comments
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Education and Capacity BuildingEducational Activities

Partnership for Protecting Alamout

by مدیر سایت November 5, 2012
written by مدیر سایت 2 minutes read

“In order to increase local people’s awareness about Persian leopard, villages within range of Alamout mountains hosted community outreach programs to save Persian leopard in the area. Jointly organized by Qazvin Department of Environment and Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS), half-day festivals were held in three main communities where recent increase in human-leopard conflicts has been a major challenge. Therefore, compensation programs are pursued in case of approved livestock depredation to prevent the species poaching. The community program aimed to introduce the compensation topic to the people, to share the camera trapping project Qazvin DoE is running and to enhance local people’s knowledge on the species.

ICS conservation educators implemented “Persian Leopard Theater” talking about main challenges the species has with communities, regarding lack of prey and livestock depredation. In the meantime, the people received short footage of a recent educational film the ICS has produced about the species. Qavin DoE’s experts also described their findings during past four years of camera trapping in the area and how they can ask the DoE to pay for their animal, if they lose to the leopard.

Laid within Elburz Mountain south of Caspian Sea, Alamut is a main leopard area, close to Iranian Caucasus eco-region where the species is experiencing a drastic decline both in number and area. In recent years, several leopards have been poached in that area, mainly due to conflict with local people. After launching of the compensation program, it is hoped that more tolerance toward the leopard can be achieved.

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Networking with hunters and nature lovers to help game wardens for better protection

 

November 5, 2012 0 comments
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Articles

Sand Cat Featured in Iran

by مدیر سایت November 5, 2012
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read

“As one of the least known cats of Iran, sand cat is a small cat weighting normally no more than three kilograms which has been verified from a few localities in Iran.  The species has been rarely studied properly across its global range, including Iran. Recently, “Sarzamin-e-Man” (meaning My Land) monthly magazine has featured this elusive and fantastic cat in its November issue which has been authored by the ICS’ CEO, Morteza Eslami with nice images taken by Iranian wildlife photographer, Fariborz Heidari. Formerly, a number of other Iranian carnivores were also featured by the magazine, authored by the ICS’ experts on brown bear, Persian leopard and grey wolf.

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Cover page of “Sarzamin-e-Man””

November 5, 2012 0 comments
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