Khar Turan National Park

IUCN Category II - National Park

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The Touran Protected Area is about 11,000 square kilometers, is the second largest protected area of Iran. It is located in the northeast of the country in the province of Semnan and includes the 1,180 -square-kilometer Touran Touran National Park and the National Wildlife Refuge. Due to the enormous size and the inhospitable conditions of the area, a number of species were able to maintain, are extinct many other parts of Iran. So the reserve one of the last two Rückszugsareale the Persian half donkey and one of the last refuges for the Asiatic cheetah. It is believed that about 12-15 of these cats live in the reserve. The ungulate species of the park include not only the half- asses and wild sheep, wild goats and two species of gazelle ( Chinkara, Gazelle goiter ).

Among the breeding birds include the Houbara Bustard, the endemic in Iran Pleskehäher and the Himalayan Treecreeper.

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