The wetlands of West Bengal in eastern India are one of the country’s best habitats for the fishing cat, a species vulnerable to extinction. But a significant population of these fish-eating ...

“They said it belonged to the fishing cat. It was the state animal of West Bengal. But I had no idea what a fishing cat was, and that was true for most people [living] in my state.” Adhya went ...

The first ever photographic evidence of a clouded leopard predating on a Bengal slow loris was captured in December 2024 in ...

Tiasa Adhya, co-founder of The Fishing Cat Project, a research and conservation project launched in 2010 and currently operating in West Bengal and Odisha, is not convinced by the study’s methodology.

The sanctuary is part of the Godavari estuary, where the Coringa river confluences into the Bay of Bengal in the Kakinada district of Andhra Pradesh. By 2018, the population of fishing cats was ...

Ripples of exhilaration have run through wildlife enthusiasts in the state with the discovery of kittens of the ‘endangered’ ...

The wild felines in Asia are highly adapted to watery environs that are disappearing A fishing cat, Prionailurus viverrinus, in Koh Mon, Thailand, at a shrimp farm. Such facilities reduce the area ...