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problems of these valuable species, as well as the plans taken to preserve the cheetahs and their reproduction.Established in 1964, ABU is
the biggest broadcasting union in the world
ABU Prizes promote excellence in content production to raise educational and cultural standards.This year, entries are accepted from 30
Final Judging will be held from September 26 to 30
And the award ceremony will be held in New Delhi, India, as a gala event of the ABU General Assembly.Fastest mammal endangeredOver the past
60 years, Iran was home to the last known population of Asiatic cheetah, which once roamed across vast ranges of the west and south Asian
the west and south Asian countries, from West Asia to India
Listed as critically endangered by the IUCN, the Asiatic cheetah is among the rarest cats in the world at the subspecies level, with fewer
than 50 believed to remain in Iran.However, Hassan Akbari, deputy head of the Department of Environment (DOE), said in January that the
land area over the past 16 years
While it is now stretching to three million hectares in the southern part of the country but is hosting only a few cheetahs.Roads that are
of the prey species to support the cheetahs, and habitat loss are also other factors endangering the sparse population of the cheetahs in
the country.The DOE has long been trying to breed Asiatic cheetah in the wild and in captivity so that the species is protected from
times, and all failed.Although, an endangered female cheetah gave birth to three cubs in captivity on May 1st, at the Touran Wildlife Refuge
in Semnan province, for the first time for the subspecies
