Management of Conflicts and Threats of the Endangered Persian Wild Ass (Equus Hemionus Onager) in Natural Habitats and Breeding and Re-introduction Centers in Iran

Farhad Hosseini Tayefeh; Bagher Nezami Baloochi; Mona Izadian

Volume 8, Issue 79 , April 2023, , Pages 26-47

https://doi.org/10.22034/envj.2023.367754.1241

Abstract
  Introduction: The Persian Wild Ass Equus hemionus onager is the only odd-toed ungulates (Perissodactyla) and largest wild herbivore in Iran, with a population of about 1300 individuals, distributed in the Bahram-e Gur conservation complex and Touran Biosphere Reserve. From the semi-captive reproduction ...  Read More

Wild Life
A Review of Genetic Evidence of Widespread Depletion of Cheetah Gene Diversity and the Need to Conserve the Surviving Populations

Maryam Mahmoudiasl; Farhad Hosseini Tayefeh; Bagher Nezami

Volume 6, Issue 74 , January 2022, , Pages 1-9

https://doi.org/10.22034/envj.2021.304264.1133

Abstract
  Cheetah is the only species from the Acinonyx subfamily and genus whose global population trend has been declining. This species is known as a species with a low genetic variation that has resulted from bottlenecks about 10,000 and 12,000 years ago. All populations of the Asiatic cheetah subspecies are ...  Read More