Iran wants to learn Cheetah management from India
Cheetah population in Iran is decreasing rapidly. Iran is constantly working to save the cheetah population. Information received from RTI revealed that Iran has shown interest in learning cheetah management from India. Rajesh Gopal, Chairman of the Cheetah Project Steering Committee of the government, shared this information during a panel meeting in February. In the details of the meeting, Rajesh Gopal was quoted as saying, “In a recent meeting, Iranian officials have expressed their interest in learning cheetah management in India.” He also suggested that India -led initiative, International Big Cat Alliance, may reach other cheetahs interested in learning about cheetah protection and management.
Iran wants to learn from India, cheetah management
However, when asked if Iran had formally approached India in this regard, a senior official of the National Tiger Conservation Authority said, “There is no such proposal at this time.” The government’s “action plan to bring cheetahs in India” also mentions that India will be ready to assist the Iran and the global conservation community in efforts to protect the seriously endangered Iranian leopard. Cheetah is the only large carnivorous animal that became extinct in India, mainly due to excessive hunting and housing loss. The last known cheetah in the country died in 1948 in the forests of the year of Korea district of Chhattisgarh.
12 leopards were brought to India
Let us know that India started a discussion in the 1970s to bring Asian Cheetah to India in exchange for Asian lions in the 1970s. However, it was decided to re -bring African species again, given the small population of Asian cheetahs in Iran and genetic similarity between Iranian and African Cheetahs. Since September 2022, India has shifted 20 African cheetahs as part of its global reintroduction program. In this, eight leopards were brought to India from Namibia and 12 from South Africa. It is now ready to get eight more leopards from Botswana in two phases, the first four are expected to come by May this year.
Cheetah population ending in Iran
In January 2022, an Iranian minister told the state media that in 2010, the number of cheetahs has come down from about 100 to just 12. According to researchers at the Tehran -based Conservation NGO Irani Cheetah Society (ICS), more than 400 Asians wandered in a large area of Eastern and Central Iran in the mid -1970s. Despite obtaining legal protection in the 1960s, cheetahs in Iran have been facing threats since the decrease in their primary hunting species, loss of housing and fragmentation, human life-long struggle, especially the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the Iran-Iraq War. Researchers say that most of the remaining houses in Iran are also rich in mineral resources, while international sanctions on Iran have caused economic difficulties, leading to some people moving towards illegal and irregular hunting of hunting animals.
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