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Leopard ProgramThe Persian Leopard Project in Northeastern Iran

The “Iranian” GPS-Satellite collared leopard visits Turkmenistan!

by مدیر سایت October 13, 2015
written by مدیر سایت 2 minutes read

On October 5th, 2015, one of the four male Persian leopards GPS-collared within the Persian Leopard Project in north-eastern Iran crossed Iran-Turkmenistan border. “Borzou”, an old male of over 10-years-old, has been continuously monitored since 22st of February 2015, when he was captured in Tandoureh National Park, Razavi Khorasan province. Bordou has been roaming outside the national park since September 26th, and has walked around 20 km through several villages and human development areas to reach the border with Turkmenistan.

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The yellow circle in left shows the first GPS location of Borzou in Turkmenistan that the research team received after he crossed the border (white line).

The research team led by Iranian Cheetah Society’s senior research Mohammad Farhadinia, has been closely working with local wildlife authority and decision makers during this period to minimize the risk of human-leopard interactions. There has been no claim of livestock loss or attack to human due to leopards by local people during this period. Interestingly, Borzou remained unspotted within this human-dominated landscape before crossing the border into the Turkmenistan’s Kopet Dag Mountains.

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Borzou photographed in Tandoureh National Park, northeastern Iran, before starting his journey to the nearby Turkmenistan

The Borzou’s successful dispersal to Turkmenistan is the first verifiable record of leopard movements between Iran and Turkmenistan, stressing the need for transboundary cooperation and conservation initiatives between these two countries. The research team now tries to contact Turkmen authorities to ensure Borzou’s safe journey inside this country.

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GPS locations and track lines show Borzou movement pattern around two mounths ago when he left the national park

This is not the first time that Borzou leaves its territory in TandourehNational Park. Around two months ago he left the reserve and spent 23 days in the surrounding villages, where he killed several domestic dogs and one wild ewe.

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Remains of domestic dog killed by Borzou on the outskirts of a village in periphery of Tandoureh National Park, northeastern Iran

The Ecology and Conservation of the Persian Leopard in Northeastern Iran Project is Mohammad’s PhD with University of Oxford’s WildCRU, and is running in collaboration with the Iranian Cheetah Society, Iran Department of the Environment, Razavi Khorasan Provincial Office of Iran Department of the Environment, and Panthera.

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The yellow landmark shows location of the domestic dog killed by Borzou near a fruit orchard next to a local road to the village

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Leopard ProgramResearch

The 4th Persian leopard radio-collared in northeastern Iran

by مدیر سایت September 5, 2015
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read

The Persian Leopard Project in North-eastern Iran led by ICS’ senior researcher Mohammad Farhadinia, successfully radio-collared another male leopard in Tandoureh National Park in Razavi Khorasan province. As Mohammad’s PhD study with University of Oxford’s WildCRU and in collaboration with Iran Department of the Environment and Panthera, the project seeks to address a number of ecological and conservation questions regarding the persistence of Persian leopards on fragmented key habitats in northeastern Iran along borders with Turkmenistan.

The new leopard, a young male of about 3-4 years old, was named “Kaveh”, after one of the hard-working research assistants in the project. The project has so far successfully radio-collared three other adult male leopards in this reserve. A team of Iranian documentary makers are closely filming the project for a documentary which is planned to be launched in 2017/18.

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leopard radio-collared

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Wildtalks

19th WildTalk Seminar Featured Presentations about Leopard and Cheetah Trophic Interactions and Genetic Census of Brown Bears

by مدیر سایت January 21, 2015
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read

On January 18, 19th “WildTalk” seminar held at Entesharat Fanni Hall, Tehran. The event brought together more than 30 researchers, students, and nature lovers. Subjects covered in this event were trophic Interactions of the Persian Leopard and Asiatic cheetahs, and genetic census of Asian brown bears.

The first speaker was Ali Rezaei from University of Tehran, who presented his work on diet of sympatric Persian leopards and Asiatic cheetahs in Bafgh Protected area, Yazd Province. Using scat analysis methods in a pilot study, Ali revealed trophic interactions between these two threatened large carnivores in one of the species’ critical habitats in central Iran. Further, Ali discussed how results of his research may guide conservation managers and parishioners in conservation planning for the threatened large felids of Iran.

The second presenter, Ehsan Moqanaki, shared results of his work in Arasbaran Biosphere Reserve of East Azarbayjan province. Ehsan has used non-invasively collected faecal-DNA to estimate abundance of brown bears in this reserve on the Iranian Caucasus, NW Iran. Additionally, he has compared his genetic census of the population with the local warden’s perceived-abundance of the reserve bears. Ehsan showed that these estimates differ in an order of magnitude, and argued that such unreliable guess-estimates may mislead managers in prioritizing conservation actions for the endangered populations.

The bi-monthly WildTalk seminars are hosted by Entesharat Fanni Publications and organized by the Iranian Cheetah Society. Each seminar brings two speakers to present their most recent research on the Iranian wildlife.

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19th wildtalk
Mr.Moqanaki in 19th wildtalk
Mr.Rezayi in 19th wildtalk
January 21, 2015 0 comments
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ICS NewsletterLeopard Program

Persian Leopard newsletter no 8

by مدیر سایت January 11, 2015
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The latest issue of the Persian Leopard Newsletter, the electronic newsletter of Iranian Cheetah Society, has been just released. You can download a pdf of this newsletter from following link.

Persian Leopard newsletter no 8 – 1.96MB
Persian Leopard newsletter no 8 – 1.22MB

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Leopard Program

The dog-eating leopard successfully captured

by مدیر سایت December 22, 2014
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read

A team of vets and conservationist leading by the Iranian Cheetah Socity’s expert Mohammad Farhadinia, successfully captured a Persian leopard in a Tazeh Qal’eh village in North Khorasan province.

After a series of attacks to villagers’ domestic stock and herding dogs, the North Khorasan Office of Iran DoE asked the ICS expert and his fellow vets to capture the problem leopard.

Tazeh Qal’eh is located just near the Iranian border with Turkmenistan. The number of leopard attacks had been sharply increased during this fall, and even in two separate incidents two residents had been injured by the leopard.

The local wildlife authority had tried different traditional methods to keep the leopard away from the village, including setting fire, using torch lights, and frequently patrolling around the village. However, these efforts had been failed to reduce the leopard depredation incidents.

The captured team deployed three foot snare traps in and around the village and in less than three nights they could successfully captured the problem leopard. Early investigations revealed that indeed the leopard ages 12-14 years, one of the oldest Persian leopards so far detected in the wild. The male leopard, later name “Omid'” meaning hope, was found to lost his canine teeth and suffers from sever mouth and dental problems. The team decided to transfer Omid to Tehran where a he can receive medical treatment. Omid is now kept at Iran DoE’s Pardisan Rehabilitation Centre. The capture team and authorities believe that Omid can not be released back into the wild.

December 22, 2014 0 comments
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Documentries

The Iranian Leopard has hunted the Munich Festival prize

by مدیر سایت November 28, 2014
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read

The documentary “In search of the Persian Leopard” won the first prize of the Mountains Nature’ section in the 12th Mountain Film Festival in Munich.

This documentary which was made between 2005 and 2011by the Iranian Cheetah Society and directed by Fath’o’llah Amiri, was also the first wildlife documentary to win the first prize of the Fajr International Film Festival and several other international prizes.

“In search of the Persian Leopard” features some of the special leopard behaviors, the process of them being filmed, their prey and their rivals.

Some of the documented behavior traits are: territory marking by the male leopard, the search of the female leopard for a place to have her cubs born and the pursuit of a deer by a leopard. The process of making this documentary also shows the improvement and the development of equipment during this period of time.

You can have more information about this film on Wildlife Pictures Institute’s website and the link to the original article can be found on the Festival’s website.

November 28, 2014 0 comments
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Asiatic Cheetah Conservation Program

Human-Leopard conflict analysis in Alamout, Qazvin

by مدیر سایت November 20, 2014
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read

Human-wildlife conflict has always been one of the main threats for many species and it has concerned conservation biologists. Free roaming large carnivores are one of the incessant issues about conflicts between human and wildlife. Leopard as one of the most important species in Caucasus is an example of this issue. Due to the importance of this topic and its influence on conservation programmes, a Master Degree project “Analyzing the human-leopard conflict in Alamout and modeling dangerous habitats using MAXENT” was conducted by one of the ICS’s research team members Leila Halakouhi, as part of ICS’s research programs. She successfully defended her thesis at Science and Research department of Islamic Azad University Central Tehran on August 25th. In this research, the human-leopard conflict information including cattle or leopard deaths was collected by interviewing locals and shepherds using qualitative methods in Alamout no hunting area; then the dangerous points for leopard were identified and modeled using Maxent method. The results from interviews indicated a positive attitude toward leopard among the communities. However people were complaining about the conservation interventions and DOE representatives in the region. Results from the modeling, indicates a positive correlation between the villages proximity to trees and shrubs covered habitats and increasing leopard related conflict.

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ICS NewsletterLeopard Program

The Persian Leopard Newsletter is back!

by مدیر سایت August 2, 2014
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read
Inspired by the Persian calender’s “Year of the Leopard”, in 2010 the Iranian Cheetah Society launched a campaign to raise awareness about the dire status of Endangered Persian leopard in Iran. Iran has always been perceived as the leopard stronghold in Western Asia. However, sadly, the long-term survival of Iranian leopards is worrisome given the escalated rate of habitat and prey loss coupled with extensive human-leopard conflicts, affecting the leopard populations across the country. The “Persian Leopard Newsletter” was published during 2010-2011 to present our activities focusing on conservation of the Persian leopard in Iran.
We are delighted to inform you that the Persian Leopard Newsletter is back! Although the Year of Leopard has passed, our goal remained unchanged. As before, this newsletter will serve as our communication and awareness tool; not only to bring you a first-hand picture of our efforts in Iran, but also to draw international attention to the enigmatic Persian leopard.

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Capacity Building

Community Based Solutions to Mitigate Human-Leopard Conflict in North of Iran

by مدیر سایت February 19, 2014
written by مدیر سایت 2 minutes read

At the end of “Capacity building of local communities to conserve Persian leopard in the Caucasus eco-region” project, a basket of solutions was designed to mitigate human- leopard conflict.

This basket contains solutions proposed by local people addressing the main roots of cattle depredation by leopard or other reasons caused damage to cattle in the target villages of project.

  • Ways to improve the care of cattle in the forest

In these villages cattle are driven out of village for grazing in the forest and are often attacked by leopard, because herders do not have enough time to be with them. Therefore, it suggested that several families graze their cattle together intermittently so fewer herder are needed to be with cattle every day and cattle are less attacked by leopard. On the other hand, most of losses occur in the farm seasons that families are very busy. Accordingly, giving cattle during rice farming seasons to a person who stay with cattle in the forest is another solution that will be often paid by rice production.

  • Keeping hybrid cattle instead of natives

Replacing existing cattle with hybrid type with higher meat and milk productivity, which can be kept mostly within corals, rather than pasturing in remote forests is the way to mitigate cattle loses by leopard or other probably damage.

Due to the high cost of buying hybrid cattle, the Artificial insemination of native cattle to have hybrid cattle is another considerable suggested solution.

  • Diversifying livelihood

When “the issue of cattle depredation” was analyzed with details, it was found that herding income is not sufficient for herders to spend fulltime on the care of cattle. So the possibility to launch a new job instead of herding or as a job opportunity in the forestwill lead in reducing the current conflict with leopard or help herders to spend more time on herding. Some of the desired are: mushroom production, beekeeping and worm compost.

  • Compensatory solution

In addition to the suggested solutions for the prevention of cattle losses, sharing enough information about existing livestock insurance program was proposed by local people asthe way to compensate financial losses.

 In the last number of Dorfak Newsletter the possible ways of implementing these solutions were described through interviewing with local people who have successful experience in each of mentioned solutions. This basket with a diversity of solution provides the opportunity for each family to implement the most appropriate solution/s based on their complicated livelihood.

 

February 19, 2014 0 comments
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Research

A Family of Leopards Near Humans

by مدیر سایت November 27, 2013
written by مدیر سایت 1 minutes read

A family of Persian leopards was seen by local people near Chalous road, one of the major paths from Tehran to northern Iran inside a local garden. Therefore, a group of experts from Alborz Department of Environment and the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) visited the place for more surveys. Based on left signs, the animals were approved to be leopard(s) and camera traps were installed to confirm its presence. Meanwhile, the DoE has enhanced its presence around to prevent any probable event that might affect adversely the leopards. Prior to the field excursion, a training workshop was held by the ICS’ Morteza Eslami for local game guards and experts about proper application of camera traps in wildlife surveys. Previously, another workshop was held by the ICS for a larger group of experts and game guards in the region in DoE central office in Karaj, discussing about various aspects of the leopard ecology. The Persian leopards inhabit ibex ranges across Alborz, a key area for the animal long-term viability in Iran. However, poaching of the prey and even the leopards as well as habitat shrinkage due to intensive human activities are threatening the animals’ existence. In order to promote leopard conservation, the ICS in partnership with Wildlife Image Institute produced a documentary, namely as “In Search for Persian Leopard” featured as the best Iranian documentary in 2011 in the area.

November 27, 2013 0 comments
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