The Department of Environment (DOE) and the Football Federation have signed a memorandum of understanding to support wildlife ...

The modern cheetah species is now much more restricted in range, and there are only a few subspecies that still exist. A subspecies known as the Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus ...

Today the Asiatic cheetah, the elegant subspecies that once graced the royal courts of India, Persia, and Arabia, is all but extinct. In Africa cheetah numbers plummeted by more than 90 percent ...

He went on to highlight that vegetation cover and favorable food and water resources in the area are the reasons behind the species presence in the area. Three Asiatic cheetah cubs have been ...

Only 7,100 cheetahs are left in the wild, almost all of them in Africa. The Asiatic cheetah, which once roamed parts of India, is now only found in Iran, where there are thought to be about 50 left.

The Asiatic cheetah is one of the rarest mammals on earth. Fewer than 100 survive in the wild, and all of them are confined to Iran’s central desert, where I deployed camera traps. One of them ...

Most wild cheetahs exist in fragmented populations in pockets of Africa, occupying a mere 9 percent of their historic range. In Iran, fewer than 50 Asiatic cheetahs (a sub-species) remain.

Asiatic cheetahs became extinct in India in the late 1940s because of excessive hunting and loss of habitat. In 2020 India's Supreme Court ruled that African cheetahs, a different subspecies ...

In Iran, a small population of Asiatic cheetahs also faces the threat of extinction. In 2019, SC approved the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)’s proposal to reintroduce African ...