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 ...

The modern cheetah species is now much more restricted in range, and there are only a few subspecies that still exist. A ...

Experts say this is a key experiment in conservation of the cheetah. There are only about 12 Asiatic cheetahs left in the wild in Iran. A recent genetic survey revealed that these animals are ...

Southern and Eastern Africa are the strongholds of the current cheetah population. The Asiatic cheetah, however, is almost extinct. Its population in Iran is reportedly at 50 or even lower, and the ...

In Asia, wild cheetah numbers have shown a staggering decline with around 80 individuals remaining, but some recent estimates show their numbers as low as 12 individuals. At present, asiatic cheetahs ...

Southeast African Cheetahs are powerful and bulky-build species of these impressive creatures, particularly found in regions of southern Africa, including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and ...

The cats that originally roamed India were Asiatic cheetahs, genetically distinct cousins of those that live in Africa and whose range stretched to Saudi Arabia. India had hoped to bring in ...

The Department of Environment (DOE) is planning to organize a committee for the preservation of critically endangered species ...

the word “cheetah” comes from the Sanskrit word “chitraka”, meaning “the spotted one”. At one point, the Asiatic cheetah ranged widely across North Africa, the Middle East and ...

I once followed the lone track of a rare Asiatic cheetah across its last home in the desert of central Iran. How can the world stand idly by while natural treasures such as this vanish ...