YAZD, Dec. 07 (MNA) � Director of Iranian Cheetah Society has announced the sighting and registering of another new Asiatic Cheetah in Yazd Province.
Morteza Eslami told Mehr News that a number of camera traps had been placed in each of the cheetah habitats in Iran for an overall observation of the target species.





He noted that a series of photographs were released by the Department of Environment in Ardakan, Yazd Province last November, which showed three Asiatic cheetahs captured on camera traps.





�At first, these three cheetahs were believed to be the same ones registered in the first phase of Cheetah Protection Program in 2012,� said Eslami, �but further investigation revealed that one of these three cheetahs has never been captured on any trap cameras before.�


�And that is how a new male cheetah, the world's second-rarest cat, has now been added to the list of other photographed ones in the Asiatic cheetah habitats,� he said.


So far, the number of Asiatic cheetahs in Iran has been estimated at 70.


By Mehr News Agency


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