MNA A Persian leopard will undergo artificial insemination in Tehran Zoological Garden next week, done for the first time in the country. "We have a Persian leopard that unfortunately has lost one hand in a hunting trap in Golestan province, and the Tehran Zoological Garden has taken care of this very unrivaled leopard since then," Chief vet of ...

MNA A Persian leopard has been spotted in the mountainous habitats of Taleghan county in Alborz province, northwest of Tehran. According to Fardin Hakimi, chief of the Alborz province department of environment (DoE), the image of the rare species was captured by camera traps in the no-hunting area on Sunday. The official said this is the third ...

Financial Tribune - A Persian leopard was captured on cameras late last week while drinking from a waterhole in Ashk Island of Urmia Lake, West Azarbaijan Province. According to Parviz Arasteh, head of the provincial office of the Department of Environment, due to the desiccation of the lake's southern part, the land has been connected to Ashk Island,...

Financial Tribune- A survey conducted to estimate the Persian leopards population has revealed that at least 10 were living in Bamou National Park in the southern Fars Province. The survey was carried out by the parks management office, in collaboration with a private NGO named Pars Wildlife, from July 21 to Nov. 21 covering an area of 320 square kilometers ...

Financial Tribune- The western Lorestan Province is seeing fewer Persian leopards these days, which raises concern about the extinction of the rare animal. According to a report by YJC, after Asiatic lion and Caspian tiger disappeared, the at-risk Persian leopards remain the biggest cat species in Iran, enhancing the animal's ecological value and ...

IFP - A male Persian leopard that had migrated to Portugal will be transferred back to Iran for mating, according to a zoo official in Tehran. The managing director of Eram Zoo, Iraj Jahangir, declared that on August 25, a male Persian leopard will be brought back to the country from the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. It will be transferred ...

Financial Tribune- Law-enforcement officials in Mazandaran Province are searching for poachers responsible for the death of two rare Persian Leopards, which were killed and skinned in Behshahr County. The provincial Department of Environment website said in a report on its website that the leopardsa female and her cubwere drinking water from Lab ...

Financial Tribune- A rare female Persian leopard that had undergone spinal surgery in February is recovering so well that authorities plan to move her to a bigger area before releasing her back into the wild. Ali Teymouri, director of the Hunting and Fishing Office at the Department of Environment, said if the leopard continues to show physical ...

Financial Tribune- An image of a Persian leopard has been captured by camera traps in Shaskouh Protected Area in South Khorasan Province. That is the second time a Persian leopard has been spotted in the area in recent months," Parviz Aramanesh, the head of the provincial office of the Department of Environment, was quoted as saying by IRNA. It ...

Financial Tribune- The Department of Environment has begun investigating reports that one of its local offices covered up the death of a young Persian leopard. Morteza Farid, the head of DOE's Complaint and Investigation of Office, told Mehr News Agency that they have started looking into the allegations. In late summer last year, a two-year-...

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 ...

Financial Tribune- Two rare Persian leopards have been spotted in Khonar, a no-hunting zone near Aradan in Semnan Province, raising hopes that their numbers may be increasing. Speaking to Mehr News Agency, Javad Shah-Hosseini, the head of Aradan Department of Environment, said the sighting increases the tally of leopards spotted in the area in recent ...

The Department of Environment is seeking the maximum punishment for a poacher charged with killing a Persian leopard cub in Mazandaran Province. Speaking to ISNA, Ali Teymouri, director of the DOEs Hunting and Fishing Office, said the hunter will most likely be sentenced to three years in jail and fined 800 million rials ($22,800). We request ...

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 ...

Rural residents and shepherds across Iran are now insured against loss inflicted by the Persian leopard, thanks to a memorandum of understanding signed between the Department of Environment and insurance company Ma. The MOU was signed on Friday, Mehr News Agency reported. The Persian leopard is the only living Pantera subspecies in Iran which ...

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 ...

After months of speculation, the Department of Environment has issued its long-awaited plan to protect the rare Persian leopard. The plan was communicated to relevant organizations across the country on Sunday, but the press was informed two days later. The Persian leopard is the only living Pantera subspecies in Iran which is of immense ecological ...

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 ...

Images captured on camera of female leopards with their cubs show efforts to protect the big cats are succeeding in Tandooreh National Park. Camera traps used in a research project involving Persian leopards in Tandooreh National Park in northeastern Iran have recently captured images of a female leopard with her cub, the website of Iran Environment ...

Half-eaten remains of an endangered Persian leopard were found in Sorkhabad Protected Area in Zanjan Province last week, adding to the death toll of the species in Iran. The remains were discovered by the locals and reported to the authorities, IRNA reported. Reports indicate the remains belong to a male Persian leopard that died 10 days prior to ...