Photos: Death of an Iranian Leopard

01/14/14

Photos by Marzieh Mousavi, Islamic Republic News Agency

A leopard that had suffered spinal cord injury due to shooting by hunters was put to sleep using euthanasia procedure and anesthetic injection. This heart-breaking incident happened in the Tonekabon region in northern Iran.







According to a December 2013 report by Iran's Department of the Environment, 46 leopards have been killed in the past six years in Iran and "the leopard and its habitat are at risk of extinction."



































































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