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Photos by: Caren Firouz/Reuters
Taken in June 2008 of a younger Koushki.
Koushki and Delbar, the world’s only captive Asiatic cheetah couple, settling into their new home in Tehran. Read more about their story here!
Eight years ago, a male Asiatic cheetah cub was brought to the Miandasht Wildlife Refuge after his mother had been killed by a poacher. He was named ‘Koushki’, after the man who had initially brought him to the reserve.
Now, he has been paired up with a female Asiatic cheetah named Delbar. The two have been transferred to a new location in Tehran in hopes that they will reproduce. This is truly a unique occasion - they are currently the only known Asiatic cheetah couple kept in captivity.
[Read more here, here, and here.]
Please consider donating to the Iranian Cheetah Society, a group dedicated to Asiatic cheetah conservation!
Asiatic Cheetahs are on the verge of extinction. Today, they are only found in Iran. As of 2013, there were 20 Asiatic Cheetahs identified, but some areas remain to be surveyed. They estimate the total population is around 70-100. Read more and donate towards their conservation on Panthera’s Iranian Cheetah Project.
Edit: Photo by Caren Firouz.
Kooshki, an Asiatic cheetah captured by a poacher as a cub and rescued by the Department of Environment, walks in his enclosure at the Pardisan Zoo in Tehran June 18, 2008.
Asiatic Cheetahs are on the verge of extinction. Today, they are only found in Iran. As of 2013, there were 20 Asiatic Cheetahs identified, but some areas remain to be surveyed. They estimate the total population is around 70-100. Read more and donate towards their conservation on Panthera's Iranian Cheetah Project.