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Golestan National Park harbours a variety of habitats, such as deciduous forests, grasslands, shrublands and rocky areas. [2]The wildlife of Iran is very rich and consists of leopard (Panthera pardus), Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes), brown bear (Ursus arctos), golden jackal (Canis aureus), wild boar (Sus scrofa), Caspian red deer (Cervus elaphus maral), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus ...
Khar Turan National Park and Touran Wildlife Refuge are adjoining protected areas in Iran. They are situated in the Semnan province, southeast of Shahrud. With a size of 1,400,000 hectares (14,000 km 2), They form the second-largest reserve in Iran. Khar Turan National Park also called the little Africa in Iran, is registered as the second ...
There are around 200 protected areas in Iran to preserve the precious biodiversity of the country. As many as 16 national parks among them are home to some of the planet's most incredible species. Golestan National Park, Kavir National Park, Turan National Park, and Tandoureh National Park are among the top protected areas.
Lar national park Yellow plain in Lar National Park. The 30,000-hectare (74,000-acre) park is in the Central Alborz mountain range, at the foot of Mount Damavand. [1]It has been a national park since 1976 and a protected area since 1982 by the Iran Department of Environment.
The biosphere reserves of Iran have a total land area of 1.64 million km 2. They support more than 8,000 recorded species of plants (almost 2,421 are endemic ), 502 species of birds , 164 species of mammals , 209 species of reptiles , and 375 species of butterflies .
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In Iran, the Hyrcanian ecoregion comprises a long strip along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and the northern slopes of the Alborz mountains. It covers parts of five provinces, from east to west: North Khorasan, Golestan (421,373 hectares (1,041,000 acres) being its south and southwest plus eastern regions of the Gorgan plain), Mazandaran, Gilan and Ardabil.
Fathollah Amiri (Persian: فتح الله امیری, born 1981) is an Iranian documentary filmmaker with a career focusing on the environment and wildlife of Iran. His film, Ranger and Leopard, received the Green Screen award in Germany in 2018. [1]