Only 17 specimens of the endangered Asiatic cheetah are left in the world, according to the head of Iran's national environment agency, Shina Ansari.

Only 17 specimens of the endangered Asiatic cheetah are left in the world, according to the head of Iran's national environment agency, Shina Ansari. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date.

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 ...