Financial Tribune- The wildlife insurance plan for the Persian leoparda measure deterring shepherds from killing the animal to protect their livestockhas been renewed for five more years, the Department of Environment's director of Hunting and Fishing Office. Speaking to Mehr News Agency, Ali Teymouri added that the insurance, offered by Ma Insurance ...

Ali Teymouri, director of the Hunting and Fishing Office at the Department of Environment has denied claims that a leopard attacked and killed 23 sheep in Dehdasht County, Kohgilouyeh-Boyer Ahmad Province. It was reported in April that the gory death of 23 sheep was perpetrated by a leopard, but nobody had seen or heard the incident, which means ...

TEHRAN, Mar. 16 (MNA) An insurance company has provided an insurance policy to cover Persian Leopard in coordination with Department of Environment. Ali Teimouri, Director-General of Department of Environments Protection and Hunting and Fishing Management Office told reporters on Wednesday that Persian Leopard(panthera pardus ciscaucasica or panthera ...

The national Persian leopard conservation project is ready and will go into effect from the beginning of the next Iranian year (March 20, 2016) for five years. The project, which brought state and provincial officials, as well as academia and 220 NGOs together, took two years to plan, IRNA reported. The Department of Environment regards the conservation ...

TEHRAN, Jun.25 (MNA) The Director-General of Department of Environmental Protection and Hunting and Fishing Management has announced ban on any dealing, export, and import of wildlife species. Ali Teimouri told Mehr News that customs office personnel and Law Enforcement Force staff would receive necessary training for the purpose; selling and buying,...

An official at Iran's Environment Protection Organization (IEPO) has said that new hunting laws, approved by the Supreme Environment Council in March 2015, pay more attention to endangered species and impose tougher penalties on people hunting these animals. Ali Teimouri further said that the fine hunters have to pay for the Asiatic cheetah has ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 28 (MNA) The Director-General of Department of Environmental Protection and Hunting and Fishing Management Deputy has said they have raised the fine on damaging Asiatic cheetah. Ali Teimouri told reporters on Tuesday that from a total of 1140 animal species, 76 species were listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species;...