Animals and Wildlife

The mother might have been killed by poachers or some locals and an investigation is underway to figure out what has become of her, a local environmental official said.

Officials say the big cats will be eventually released back into the wild, but for that they need to be between 16 and 20 months old.

Further tests and even a sonogram will be run in the presence of a foreign consultant in late March to determine whether she is pregnant.

The video shows two cheetahs and a camel coming to a water hole at the same time.

Clinical examinations of the big cat revealed that Borzoo was an 11-year-old male Persian leopard that weighed 57 kg.

An initiative intended to protect Persian fallow deer in a western Iranian province has seen the number of the deer rise to 44.

The 20-minute featuring Bardiya a Persian leopard mating will be released as a wildlife documentary shortly.

After the sand cat was freed from the trap and transferred to get medical care, all traps set in the region were ordered destroyed.

A flock of swans have arrived in Iran to take refuge in the Sorkhrud Lagoon where they can spend winter.

The Golden Eagle which lives in Iran’s mountainous areas does not like human disturbances; when disturbed it leaves the nest.

The Persian Zebra, which is indigenous to the deserts of Iran, is living together with other animals in this protected area.

A blind date between the two cheetahs paid off, yet it remains to be seen if they are really serious in wanting to start a family.

In a terribly tragic incident, a cheetah cub shared the same fate as its mother and lost its life to a car accident on the same spot where the female cheetah was found dead.

Four new Asiatic cheetahs have been sighted in Iran, says the head of Touran Biosphere Reserve (TBR) in Semnan Province.

The man who illegally hunted the Persian leopard landed up in jail for killing the big cat, damaging the environment and carrying an unlicensed weapon.

Different parts of Iran have been home to non-domesticated animal species. North Khorasan province in northeast of Iran is one of them.

A look at beautiful animal species in a protected area in northern Iran.

The number of Asiatic cheetahs in Iran is projected to stand at 70.

Seven wild captive birds regained their freedom after environmental police of Marivan found them in a poacher’s house.

It’s time some humans took a leaf out of a donkey’s book.

Beautiful photos of two rare species which are on the edge of extinction in southern Iran.

The presence of a rare species of caracal in a protected area of Hamadan Province is a reflection of normal habitat for the wildlife there.

GPS tracking neckbands help Iranian animal experts get a better understanding of Persian leopards in mountainous regions of the country.

Volunteer environmentalists, who protect Iran's northern forests, have snapped great photos of animals in their habitat.

The environmental police in southern Iran have stopped bird traffickers from smuggling falcons from Pakistan to Persian Gulf countries.