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 ...

The evening's theme, "Wild at Heart," was amplified by a dinner served in a dramatic tent decorated with crystal chandeliers and purple orchids.

Fifteen poems from Elliott spotlight Saharan desert fauna in this evocative ... opening and closing lines of a piece about a Saharan cheetah stalking prey. Other carefully composed verses ...