It said that the government of Iran is capable of taking care of the cheetah. Iran’s Department of the Environment will now be the main body helping keep the cheetah alive, but the head of the department had already said the creature is “doomed to extinction”.
Iran has already suffered the loss of the Asiatic lion and Caspian
tiger species, and now the nation’s Asiatic cheetahs are on the brink of
extinction, too.
Asiatic cheetahs were once widespread across the continent but were
eradicated in India, where they were hunted for sport. The spread of
farming also greatly reduced numbers in the 19th and 20th centuries.Eventually the animal was wiped out in all the nations of Asia to
which it was once native – with the exception of a few areas of Iran.
According to The Guardian,
conservationists are warning the public that following the U.N.’s
recent decision to pull funding from the protection of the world’s
second-rarest feline (Amur leopards are reportedly the rarest), the
already critically endangered species will be completely wiped out.
