Animals and Wildlife

Footage recorded by a trap camera in a protected area in northern Iran shows leopards, eagles, bearded vultures, foxes and martens feeding on the carcass of a wild goat.

In the spring of 2021, a shepherd found a red deer cub in the heights of Iran’s Mazandaran Province in northern Iran and decided to sell it.

A rare Iranian eagle found injured and unable to fly six months ago in Iran’s Albroz province is now flying free. The director-general of Alborz Environment Department said the Golden Eagle was rehabilitated after it was found.

Dasht-e Naz wildlife protected area is located 25 kilometers to the north east of Sari, the capital of Mazandaran Province in northern Iran, and spans 55 hectares. The mountainous area is one of the tourist destinations of Sari and is covered by Hyrcanian forests.

A drop in rainfall and the ensuing drought this summer have resulted in the deaths of fish, buffalos and the marsh in the Hour-ol-Azim Wetland.

This is the story of a female veterinarian undertaking the daunting task of performing a root canal surgery on a lioness.

The zoo in the town of Safadasht west of Tehran has provided explanations about the death of an African zebra shortly after his transfer to Iran from the Netherlands.

Haaj Ebrahim’s cow moves only when it hears him singing, which has turned into a tourist attraction in the town of Varzaneh in the central Iranian province of Isfahan.

The Sorkhrud wetland in Mazandaran province, northern Iran, annually hosts a huge number of migratory swans in the cold season.

In the second case over the past 30 days, a whale has washed ashore in the beaches of Kish Island in southern Iran.

The carcass of a whale belonging to an endangered species of the mammal is found off the coast of Kish Island in southern Iran and buried there.

Bandar Torkaman is a port city located 40 kilometres west of the city of Gorgan in northern Iranian Golestan province.

A group of Iranian environmentalists have rescued six flamingo chicks that were caught in the salt on the western shores of Lake Urmia.

Baran is the only baby chimpanzee in Iran whose life was saved by a veterinarian right after its premature delivery and is now kept at Eram Zoo in the capital, Tehran.

A faculty member of Birjand University in Iran’s South Khorasan province has discovered and named two new genera and species of arthropods and spiders.

Persian fallow deer is an endangered species which has been reproducing in the wildlife sanctuary of Dasht-e-Naz in northern Iran for more than 50 years.

Storks are among the migratory birds that come to the city of Marivan in western Iran every year in mid-spring.

An Iranian centre for training search and rescue dogs says it is working with the military to train dogs to diagnose COVID-19 disease.

The driver of a mechanical digger has filmed a Persian leopard trying to eat him!

An African lion cub, Hir, and lioness cub Dena, have arrived in Iran. They are kept at a specially protected center in Alborz Province.

Known as “the birds’ paradise”, Miankaleh in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran attracts many migratory birds every year.

Two foreign poachers have been arrested at the airport of the Iranian city of Shiraz for the illegal hunting of houbara bustards.

Brown is a dog who lost its leg in a car accident in Tehran, but survived thanks to a young Iranian man who is now helping him live a better life.

An Iranian tourist has embarked on a trip around the globe on a Persian Bactrian camel in a bid to get this endangered species known to the world.

A poacher receives a rare court verdict in the Iranian town of Firuzkuh near the capital of Tehran.