Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/persian-wildlife-heritage-foundation/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:47:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/persian-wildlife-heritage-foundation/ 32 32 59910430 Conservationist Depicts Iranian Prison Conditions In Letters Sent to Media https://concernedscientists.org/2020/03/conservationist-depicts-iranian-prison-conditions-in-letters-sent-to-media/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:47:53 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7860 Niloufar Bayani is a widely respected conservation scientist who works at the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation. She received a Master’s in conservation biology from Columbia University in 2012, and then worked for the UN Environment Program (UNEP) in Geneva before joining the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation in 2017. She and eight colleagues were arrested in […]

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]]> 7860 Asiatic Cheetah Researchers Sentenced in Iranian Court for Allegedly “Spying” https://concernedscientists.org/2019/11/asiatic-cheetah-researchers-sentenced-in-iranian-court-for-allegedly-spying/ Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:52:29 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=7701 Eight researchers, employees of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (“PWHF”), a nonprofit conservation organization, were arrested in January 2018 and charged with spying. In November 2019 they were found guilty and sentenced to jail terms ranging from six to ten years in prison. The conservationists were tracking cheetahs with camera traps, a typical way to […]

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