NEW DELHI (AP) — Seven decades after cheetahs died out in India, they’re back. Eight big cats from Namibia made the long trek Saturday in a chartered cargo flight to the northern Indian city of Gwalior, part of an ambitious and hotly contested plan to reintroduce cheetahs to the South Asian country. Then they were […]
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Cheetahs Returning To India Following Extinction In Country About 70 Years Ago


Asiatic cheetahs on the edge of extinction with only 50 left alive


Conservationists have warned that the Asiatic cheetah is on the threshold of extinction following a UN decision to pull funding from conservation efforts to protect it. Fewer than 50 of the critically endangered carnivores are thought to be left in the wild – all of them in Iran – and scientists fear that without […]
Veep: Iran considers neighbors’ security as its own security


Ashkhabad, Dec 12, IRNA – First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri emphasizing Iran’s will to expand ties with Turkmenistan said that here on Saturday our country attaches great importance to its neighbors’ security to an extent that we consider their security as our own. Jahangiri who is in Ashkhabad to participate in a ceremony marking the […]