The Caspian Tiger (Panthera tigris virgata)

[Matias]

Honestly, I didn't like Mr. Kaveh Ahmadi Aliabadi's arguments, he really has very incoherent points and poor reasoning. Below are two quotes taken from the article:

"Similarly, the Tasmanian tiger was thought to be extinct, but it has been seen several times and it is now known that some of them are probably still hiding in the deep forests of Tasmania."

This situation and its obviousness in being fake does not deserve any explanation.

"Projects for the protection, cub killing, revival and reintroduction of the Mazandaran tiger, the Siberian tiger and the Asiatic lion should also be followed in the direction of the Asiatic cheetah project, and especially with the help of foreign experts and experiences, and perhaps the facilities and technology in the world, not with secrecy, and leaving a species on the brink of extinction at the hands of nature polluted by man."

Complicated, right? Tylacine as a rediscovered species and Asian cheetah project as a model. Nothing more than, at most, a dozen cheetahs live free in Iran (30 years ago there were around 100). In 2016, the already catastrophic situation became known:

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/only-two-female-asiatic-cheetahs-remain-in-wild-in-iran/

Its conservation program focused on a pair of cheetahs in captivity, doomed to failure due to a total lack of genetic diversity.

And the case of wildlife professionals arrested in Iran on grounds of espionage, their names and their sentences.

November 2019 sentence:

Niloufar Bayani and Morad Tahbaz - 10 years
Houman Jokar and Taher Ghadirian - 8 years old
Amir Hossein Khaleghian and Sepideh Kashani - 6 years old
Seyed-emami - Died while in pre-trial custody.

Iran is a major investor in conservation, with its notorious international partnerships - just being cynical.

As for tigers, I can even conceive of elaborate reasoning that encourages the possibility of their existence among lay people. It is part of the game of conservation and the different interests in promoting Lazarus species. But for me, logic and insights require much more than this simple story can be told.

Mr. Kaveh and the Iranian regime know that this issue is a form of international insertion, while Chita's spotlight goes out. Reply