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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)- Data, Pictures & Videos
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)- Data, Pictures & Videos
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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)- Data, Pictures & Videos
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IUCN pdf about cheetah conservation in benin
http://www.catsg.org/cheetah/05_library/5_3_publications/B/Berzins_et_al_2007_Conservation_of_cheetahs_in_North_Benin.pdf It is in frech
Some photos of Acinonyx jubatus hecki
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Rare pictures and information about Asiatic cheetahs in places where they wouldn't be seen nowadays in the Middle East, like in Iraq, Pages 170–172: http://www.catsg.org/cheetah/05_library/...Arabia.pdf
(01-25-2019, 01:59 PM)Lycaon Wrote: This is the first time seeing living asiatic cheetah in iraq! I also have an image of a skin that was detected in a market in Mazar-i-Shafar, northern Afghanistan. It was alleged to be from the area of Semangan, also in the north of the country: http://www.catsg.org/cheetah/01_informat...nistan.pdf Anyways, I wanted to emphasise, for those who didn't see my comment about this elsewhere, that with regards to their classification of subspecies of cheetahs in 2007, the Cat Specialist Group wasn't fully sure about it (Pages 30−31), like they weren't sure about subspecies of cougars (Pages 32−33), saying that Asiatic and North African cheetahs could be the same subspecies: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...sAllowed=y "The most comprehensive phylogeographical study to date was by Charruau et al. (2011). This analysis of mtDNA (NADH5, cytb and control region) and 18 polymorphic nuclear microsatellites revealed a complex star-shaped pattern in the mtDNA haplotype network, with suggestions of geographical partitioning. For example, Asian, Arabian and north African cheetahs tended to group together as did those from north-east Africa, including Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. However, this was not exclusive. East African cheetahs diverged into two different lineages from those of southern Africa. C. Groves (pers. obs.) found that Saharan cheetahs are probably distinguishable morphologically from their small spots, but that Asian cheetahs did not seem to differ significantly from African cheetahs. Charruau et al. (2011) concluded that the following subspecies can be recognised genetically, although no diagnostic morphological distinctions can be made currently: Acinonyx jubatus jubatus (Schreber, 1775). Distribution: Southern and eastern Africa. Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii (Fitzinger, 1855). Distribution: NE Africa. Acinonyx jubatus venaticus (Griffith, 1821). Distribution: SW Asia and India. Acinonyx jubatus hecki Hilzheimer, 1913. Distribution: W and N Africa. However, the divergence times between these lineages are very recent (Charruau et al. 2011), e.g. 32,000-67,000 ya between jubatus and venaticus, and 16,000-72,000 ya between jubatus and soemmeringii, and the inclusion of ancient DNA samples from north Africa and southwest Asia blurred the distinction between north African and Asian cheetahs, suggesting isolation by distance. It is possible that there are only two subspecies of cheetah; northern (venaticus) and southern/ eastern (jubatus), or perhaps none if further more comprehensive sampling of museum specimens is carried out."
I wonder if cheetah's and tigers are still in Afghanistan. Interesting rare finds @BorneanTiger
Looks That Kill - Photo by @kappmarcus ***  cheetah on Zebra kill??? BTW that devil eyes and look with nictitating membrane (3rd eye lid) 
These are most likely the clearest photos of Acinonyx jubatus hecki
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DOE builds underpass to avoid Asiatic cheetah road crash death
January 27, 2019  *This image is copyright of its original author TEHRAN :– In an attempt to provide a safe place for the few surviving Asiatic cheetahs, the Department of Environment (DOE) has constructed an underground passage stretching to 8 kilometers along Abbasabad road in central province of Semnan, Rajab Ali Karegar, the Conservation of the Asiatic Cheetah (CACP) project deputy director has said. Quote:Since past 60 years, Iran is home to the last known population of Asiatic cheetah, which once roamed across vast ranges of west and south Asian countries, from the Middle East to India. Listed as critically endangered by the IUCN, the Asiatic cheetah is among the rarest cats in the world at subspecies level, with fewer than 50 believed to remain in Iran. In 1370s (1997-2000), according to field studies conducted by both domestic and international experts, a cheetah named Marita, was the only evidence of the cheetahs’ existence for nearly ten years, Karegar stated, adding, the CACP project was launched back in 2001, in cooperation with United Nations Development Program and a number of concerned national and international NGOs to reverse the endangered specie’s drastic decline.
The project has been comprised of three phases aiming at research, protection and training courses for integration of local communities as active partners in protected areas, the first phase was co-funded by the Global Environment Facility and was implemented since 2001 to 2008, while the second phase went into effect in 2010.
The project was implemented on some 5 regions in 6 provinces of the country, through which some 47 cheetahs have been identified since past three years, he added.
Referring to 6 million hectares of Asiatic cheetahs’ habitat in the country, he noted that 60% of the cheetahs are inhabiting out of the areas defined to determine the cheetah’s population, so that in the third phase of the project we will not only focus on protected areas supervised by DOE, but also cheetah’s migration corridors will be observed more closely.
He went on to say that through the third phase of the CACP, all the solutions are classified in three fields of strengthening managing methods and optimization, participation of local communities and calling on stakeholders to conserve the precious species.
Given the DOE envisioned building underpasses so that cheetahs can cross beneath highways and avoid road accidents, an eight-kilometer long underground passage has been constructed along Abbasabad road, thanks to various donors, he concluded. (What an innovation to mitigate wildlife accidents!!!
)Quote:"Better"conservation plans for Asiatic cheetah conservation, and its prey by training the rangers, increasing the quality of captive breeding, raising public awareness, drawing up plans for alternative jobs for sustainable agriculture, livestock breeding and eco-tourism by soliciting public participation, and decreasing human-wildlife conflict are among the objectives of the third phase of the project. An environmentalist, Mehdi Nabian said that in order to prevent the species’ extinction, in addition to the DOE, the participation of other related bodies along with national determination is essential.
The cheetah’s habitat is so vast, as many rangers have never seen a cheetah, so it is not easy to capture them alive with the standard conditions and veterinarian present in the area, he lamented.
The DOE’s efforts have come efficient over the past 50 years, and the CACP is the most successful project ever undertaken by the organization, he stated, adding, thanks to the NGOs, even the remote villages in the country are aware of the endangered species and the protection methods through the project.
Quote: In December 2018, Hamid Zohrabi, deputy environment chief for DOE’s natural environment and biodiversity directorate said that the DOE has considered using gestational surrogacy as an option to breed the endangered species of Asiatic cheetah, in case artificial insemination and captive breeding face failure.
director of aquatic wildlife and biodiversity office at the DOE, Majid Kharrazian-Moqaddam, said in August 2018 that Cheetahs’ habitats in Iran are stretching over 12 million hectares of land area and over the past 16 years only experts collaborating with the CACP project have actually strived to count 48 cheetahs using trap cameras and other technical methods.
Quote:Kharrazian-Moqaddam explained road kill constitute 70 percent of cheetahs’ fatalities, as some 42 Asiatic cheetahs have been killed in the country since past 16 years, 28 of them died in road crashes and 14 other were either killed in conflicts with guard dogs or due to other unknown reasons. For one Abbasabad-Mayami road, linking north-central Semnan province to Mashhad, northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi, in one of the deadliest roads for Asiatic cheetahs as 8 cheetahs have been killed in this area over the past 10 years, he lamented.
Roads fragmenting cheetahs’ habitats are the main threats for the species, while guard dogs and stray dogs, drought spells, decreasing population of the prey species to support the cheetahs, and habitat loss are also other factors endangering the sparse population of the cheetahs in the country.
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/432328/...rash-death Related News
Male cheetah coalition predation on wildebeest. FINAL MOMENTS. Photo by @clement.wild The expression on the prey's face says it all.But if you look at it from the cheetahs perspective, its a chance to see another day.
Another clear photo of hecki in pendjari
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Photos of a hecki in the algerian sahara desert
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