Asiatic cheetah [SEP] IUCN conservation status
Asiatic cheetah
The Asiatic cheetah ("Acinonyx jubatus venaticus"), also known as Iranian or Persian cheetah, is a Critically Endangered cheetah subspecies surviving today only in Iran. It once occurred from the Arabian Peninsula and the Near East to the Caspian region, Kyzylkum Desert, Pakistan and India, but has been extirpated there during the 20th century.
The Asiatic cheetah survives in protected areas in the eastern-central arid region of Iran, where the human population density is very low. Between December 2011 and November 2013
East African cheetah
- American cheetahs ("Miracinonyx")
External links.
- Species portrait Asiatic cheetah; IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group
- Iranian Cheetah Society – A non-profit organisation set up to save the Asiatic cheetah.
- Asiatic Cheetah Project – Felidae Conservation Fund, USA
- Cheetah Conservation Fund
- Iran Department of Environment
- ScienceDaily 2011: The Need for Conservation of Asiatic Cheetahs
- The Persian Cheetah
- Spotted big cat in Turkmenistan
- Asiatic cheetah embryos cloned