Animals and Wildlife

The tragic extinction of various species is not limited to Iran and the Iranian (Asiatic) cheetah. There are many animals out there in the nature that are endangered as studies of Zoological Society of London (ZSL) show that animals' population could drop to 67% by 2020. 

Rangers in Semnan Province, central Iran, arrested a number of hunters with a large number of taxidermied animals.

A video has gone viral in Iran, showing a baby tiger wandering the streets of Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad.

Golestan National Park is one of the best, largest, and oldest national parks in Iran, accommodating many species of plants and animals. Here are Mehr’s...

The head of the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS), a Tehran-based NGO, said the population of Iranian cheetahs, also known as Asiatic cheetahs, is undergoing a rapid decline despite all measures taken to save the endangered species.

The three-day National Purebred Horse Festival was kicked off in the Iranian central city of Meybod, Yazd province, on Wednesday, August 24.

Iranian sport teams will appear in the Rio 2016 Olympics while, in addition to the Iranian cheetah, the images of 50 endangered species are going to be printed on their sports clothing, an official announced.

A resident of Tashan district located in Iran’s south-western city of Behbahan spotted a gap on a hill near his home village. To satisfy his curiosity, he approached it for closer examination and found that he is looking at a cave that is home to a valuable species of fish.

Environmental patrol officers in Shahroud’s Khartouran wildlife refuge have caught a rare glimpse of Asiatic Cheetah in a quite accidental encounter.

IRIB: The Bijar Protected Zone is a natural area in the northeast of Iran’s western province of Kurdistan, near the city of Bijar. This...

The pictures of two Persian leopards were recorded by camera in this western province, a local official said on Sunday.

In a rare incident, experts at Parsian Wildlife Institute found a newborn snow cub at Golestan National Park on Jan 25.

In ancient Persia, people celebrated a day named “Bahmanagan” in which they did not eat any type of meat. Environment and animal rights activists...

Unlike the previous four, the leopard is a three-year female weighing in at 40 kg.

The environment chief has said that her organization has taken measures to raise people’s awareness of their responsibility toward the Iranian cheetah and help them understand the real value of these feline species.

The ceremony was held at Pardisan Park, a research site in Tehran, home to two Asiatic Cheetahs.

During the census-taking a number of poachers were apprehended.

An official at Isfahan provincial Environment Department has said the recent image of a sand cat captured by camera traps in Nain has paved the way for research on the conditions of wildcats in the province.

I decided to ask for the construction of a waterhole in the wilderness as my marriage portion because I blame human activity for the damage caused to animal habitant, the bride says.

Kooshki was handed over as a gift by a hunter to the Environment Protection Organization when he was a cub.

A Meraj Airlines Airbus A320 on whose nose the image of an Asiatic cheetah has been painted has taken to the sky for the first time.

Images captured on camera of female leopards with their cubs show efforts to protect the big cats are succeeding in Tandooreh National Park.

An Iranian environmentalist says that renaming or naturalization of an animal which is native to other countries cannot change the history of the animal.

Caracals are deemed as a symbol of beauty and magnificence in deserts across Iran.

Photos of water buffalos on the banks of the Karun River in southern Iran.