Morteza Eslami added that the Iranian cheetah is in a pre-extinction phase, noting that there has been severe decline in the number of Iranian cheetahs in protected areas.

He underlined that without the protective measures taken so far, the Asiatic cheetah would have faced extinction a long time ago.

Asiatic cheetah, also known as Iranian cheetah is among the world’s rare and imperiled animal species whose extinction countdown has begun.

The Central Iranian Plateau is currently the habitat where the few remaining Asiatic cheetahs are taking their last breaths. In the absence of an effective solution, like Iranian lion and Mazandaran— northern Iranian province —

, the Asiatic cheetah will be soon doomed to extinction, leaving us and the future generation ruing.

Experts, however, still maintain that there is a faint possibility that this fleet-footed and slender feline can survive extinction. However, this probability is not strong enough to let Iranian officials sit idle and be content with what they have done so far to save the Asiatic cheetah from extinction and revive the species.

Preventing Iranian shepherds from grazing their cattle in the Iranian cheetahs’ territory is the only solution left for us to be able to see the world’s fastest runner dashing Iranian open and vast plains in the future. In fact, grazing cattle in the Iranian cheetah’s domain has always led to the victimization of the feline in different ways.

Moving the cattle from the Asiatic cheetahs’ habitat, however, is not a simple task and calls for a multibillion-dollar budget for purchasing the territories where the Iranian cheetah lives and prohibiting grazing cattle in them.