Iran joins hands with the West to save cheetahs

  • 20/06/2008

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

Iranian and Western wildlife experts are working together to save rare cheetahs from extinction in this arid, mountainous region, despite a nuclear row between their governments. US and British-based conservation groups are backing a campaign spearheaded by Iran's department of environment and the United Nations Development Programme to prevent the endangered Asiatic cheetah from dying out. Iran is believed to host the only 60