A poacher who had killed 11 gazelles in Kashan, Isfahan Province, has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined 220 million rials ($6,666), said the head of Kashans Department of Environment, Mahmoud Qahremani. The fine is for causing damage to the wildlife and hunting without a legal permit. The prison sentence was issued as a punishment ...

A number of poachers attacked an environmental monitoring station in Qomishloo National Park with Molotov cocktail bombs and set it on fire. The head of the Environmental Protection Squad in Isfahan said the two rangers assigned to the station were chasing the poachers at the time of the attack. He added that two motorcycles were stolen. The Mehr ...

A poacher in Northern Khorasan, who was arrested while sellingleopard skin, has been sentenced to three years in jail. IRNA reports that the leopard was hunted down last winter in a protected area. The head of the Northern Khorasan Department of the Environment said the individual had been under surveillance by investigators for some time. The ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's official news agency is reporting that authorities have detained two Spaniards for alleged illegal hunting after they were found with a captured alligator. The Sunday report by IRNA quotes Gholamhossein Kazemi, the head of the environment department of southwestern Ilam province, as saying the two were detained during a ...

The head of the Fars Province Department of Environmental Protection reports that an illegal hunter who was caught hunting birds in the Parishan Wetlands of Kazeroon was ordered to prepare a research study about the environment of the region instead of being sent to jail. The report adds that the offender was laying traps for 38 francolin when he ...

Five deer in the Dasht-e Qanat region of Bordsir in Kerman province were killed by poachers this spring. ISNA reports that a spokesman for the citys Department of the Environment said their rangers pursued the poachers and arrested one of them, who identified the other two, allowing their capture as well. The report indicates that the court has ...