Cheetahs in Iran

Does the entire population in captivity still consist of only 1 pair as mentioned in earlier posts or is this only the captive population in Iran?
 
This really is horrible news, quite a steep drop in just 10 years. Is there any of this subspecies in captivity?
 
This is deeply saddening news! Very depressing and infuriating! This story shines light on why I believe that every wild animal and plant species, subspecies, and distinct population segment needs to have a captive/Ex-Situ assurance population when and where possible. If Asiatic cheetahs had a captive breeding program, this wouldn't have happened or at least if we collected genetic material the way we did with say Northern white rhinoceros.
 
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Pantheraman said:
And to think India could've helped in their recovery, oh wait, there are politics. Whoopee.
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India is not doing the best with conservation efforts, though hopefully it improves. When I got to visit my family, I do notice the amount of garbage and smell there, though with 1 billion people it is kinda hard to keep things clean. I just wish that more attention would be payed to India's beautiful wildlife.
 
Pantheraman said:
And to think India could've helped in their recovery, oh wait, there are politics. Whoopee.
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India seems to be importing African cheetahs for reintroduction which is odd. India and Iran aren't really friends but not really foes either... I imagine the reason there was no import to India is because the population in Iran was too small.
 
Bengal Tiger said:
India is not doing the best with conservation efforts, though hopefully it improves. When I got to visit my family, I do notice the amount of garbage and smell there, though with 1 billion people it is kinda hard to keep things clean. I just wish that more attention would be payed to India's beautiful wildlife.
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I have to agree with this, unfortunately India is full of pollution and trash. The ironic thing is that despite being the second most populous countries in the world, it is also one of the most biodiverse countries in the world with tons of notable megafauna species as well.
Mayki said:
India seems to be importing African cheetahs for reintroduction which is odd. India and Iran aren't really friends but not really foes either... I imagine the reason there was no import to India is because the population in Iran was too small.
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Yeah that’s likely the reason, as you may have read the most recent count found only 12 animals in total. I also read a few years back that Iran wanted some Asiatic lions in return but India refused.
 
birdsandbats said:
I think India's reintroduction efforts are a good idea, personally.
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I wish Iran could have parted with some of their Asiatic cheetahs allowing them back into other parts of their original distribution range. Pardon my digression, but the Asiatic cheetahs that were kept at ZSL London Zoo in the 1860s came from what is now Isreal, what was then Ottoman Palestine. With today's geopolitics, I can't imagine Iran having signed off on any being sent to Israel... In the 1970s, they didn't allow the export of Mesopotamian fallow deer into Israel and tried to stop it, but somehow it was pulled off,the group at Hai Bar Mount Carmel, case and point.
 
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UngulateNerd92 said:
I wish Iran could have parted with some of their Asiatic cheetahs allowing them back into other parts of their original distribution range.
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Wasn't the population then already tiny? I don't see why they'd split up an already tiny population across two places, when the ones in Iran didn't even do well (I'm assuming that, considering how there's now only 12 left, with an almost certainly unviable gene pool, considering the sex ratio is 3:1)
 
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