Jharkhand forest officials rescue endangered fishing cat sighted after decades
6 years, 9 months ago

Jharkhand forest officials rescue endangered fishing cat sighted after decades

Hindustan Times  

The state forest department officials rescued a rare fishing cat from a hilly area in Jharkhand’s Sahibganj district, over 400 km from the state capital, after it was trapped and injured by villagers on Saturday evening, officials said. Fishing cats are mainly found in the foothills of the Himalayas along the Ganga and Brahmaputra river valleys, mangrove forests of the Sundarbans and in the Western Ghats. State chief wildlife warden LR Singh said, “Villagers had trapped the cat after their domesticated animals, mainly calves and goat kids, started disappearing. Singh said the several wetlands, including Udhwa lake and the Ganga stretch, could be attracting the fishing cat in the Sahibganj area.

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Fishing cats: Is Bengal doing enough to protect its state animal?
3 years, 1 month ago

Fishing cats: Is Bengal doing enough to protect its state animal?

Hindustan Times  

KOLKATA: On January 20, conservationist Chitrak Pramanik was told that at least three fishing cats have been found dead at Bagnan in West Bengal’s Howrah district. According to a study conducted by The Fishing Cat Project as part of a WWF grant, at least 27 cases were reported from Howrah and Hooghly alone wherein fishing cats were found dead. The …

Endangered Fishing Cats Spotted in MP's Panna Tiger Reserve, Pics Go Viral
3 years, 6 months ago

Endangered Fishing Cats Spotted in MP's Panna Tiger Reserve, Pics Go Viral

News 18  

Nature with its abundance of resources and habitat sometimes fall short of making its entire animal kingdom survive without struggling. A camera trap has recorded a picture of a fishing cat in the Panna Tiger Reserve of Madhya Pradesh. Fishing cats usually inhabit the Sundarbans region of West Bengal, the Western Ghats and the foothills of the Himalayas along the …

The fight to save India's most elusive cat
3 years, 11 months ago

The fight to save India's most elusive cat

BBC  

The fight to save India's most elusive cat Alamy The fishing cat stalks its prey in swamps, wetlands and mangrove forests The fishing cat is one of India's most enigmatic predators, hunting the waterways of its remaining wetlands and swamps. "They prefer shallow wetlands and are nest-making cats," says Tiasa Adhya, a Kolkata-based conservationist and co-founder of The Fishing Cat …

Rare, endangered Fishing Cat sighted in Chilika
4 years, 5 months ago

Rare, endangered Fishing Cat sighted in Chilika

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhubaneswar: Chilika Lake, the largest brackish water lagoon in Asia and India’s oldest Ramsar Site, has now an ambassador –the Fishing Cat. “The globally endangered Fishing Cat was found to be present all around the Chilika Lake but the marshlands fringing its north and north-eastern sections were the places where most evidence of its occurrence was found according to a …

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