Touran reserve
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Touran
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| location | Iran |
| surface | 118,000 ha |
| WDPA ID | 313260 |
| Geographical location | 35 ° 43 ' N , 56 ° 5' E |
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| Setup date | 2002 |
| administration | Semnan Provincial Administration |
The Touran sanctuary is the second largest sanctuary in Iran at around 11,000 square kilometers . It is located in the northeast of the country in the Semnan Province and includes the 1,180 square kilometers Touran National Park and the Touran Game Reserve. Due to the enormous size and the inhospitable conditions of the area, a number of species have survived that are already extinct in many other parts of Iran. The sanctuary is one of the last two refuge areas of the Persian half-ass and one of the last refuges for the Asian cheetah . It is believed that around 12-15 of these cats live in the sanctuary. The ungulates in the park include wild sheep , wild goats and two types of gazelle ( Indian gazelle , crop gazelle ) in addition to the half- izles .
Among the breeding birds include the Houbara Bustard , the Iranian endemic pleske's ground jay and the Himalayan Treecreeper .
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- Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2008): Protected Areas in Today's World: Their Values and Benefits for the Welfare of the Planet. Montreal, Technical Series no.36, i-vii + 96 pages. Compiled by Lisa Janishevski, Kieran Noonan-Mooney, Sarat Babu Gidda and Kalemani Jo Mulongoy, ISBN 92-9225-082-5
- By Mohammad S. Farhadinia: The Last Stronghold: Cheetah in Iran. CAT NEWS, N ° 40, Spring 2004: pp.11-14 online PDF
- Site factsheet from BirdLife International, accessed August 12, 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ BirdLife International, see sources