Retractable Claws Semi-retractable claws provide better grip while running, unlike other big ... as ‘vulnerable’ by the IUCN, with the Asiatic cheetah subspecies critically endangered.

Most wild cheetahs exist in fragmented populations in pockets of Africa, occupying a mere 9 percent of their historic range. In Iran, fewer than 50 Asiatic cheetahs (a sub-species) remain.

The Asiatic cheetah is one of the rarest mammals on earth. Fewer than 100 survive in the wild, and all of them are confined to Iran’s central desert, where I deployed camera traps. One of them ...

Only 7,100 cheetahs are left in the wild, almost all of them in Africa. The Asiatic cheetah, which once roamed parts of India, is now only found in Iran, where there are thought to be about 50 left.

Asiatic cheetahs became extinct in India in the late 1940s because of excessive hunting and loss of habitat. In 2020 India's Supreme Court ruled that African cheetahs, a different subspecies ...

In Iran, a small population of Asiatic cheetahs also faces the threat of extinction. In 2019, SC approved the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)’s proposal to reintroduce African ...