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REPORT سینما<br />
Discover Persian Leopard<br />
The leopard (Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1978)<br />
is one of the most widely distributed terrestrial<br />
species, with a global range of at least<br />
80 countries across a wide variety of habitats,<br />
from rainforests to deserts. After the<br />
disappearance of the Asiatic lion (Panthera<br />
leo persica) and Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris<br />
virgata) prior to the 1970s, the Persian<br />
leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) remains<br />
as the largest cat in western Asia. Presently,<br />
it is considered “endangered” on the IUCN red<br />
list of threatened species.<br />
Arid environments of the Middle East are typically<br />
low-productive landscapes which harbour<br />
a number of threatened large carnivores,<br />
including the leopard. Leopards range across<br />
the mountains and foothills of west Asia from<br />
Turkmenistan and Afghanistan through Iran to<br />
the Caucasus, as well as the Arabian Peninsula.<br />
A substantial proportion of their distribution<br />
across this region is spatially non-contiguous,<br />
influenced by human disturbance and extremely<br />
low annual rainfall (
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