Fishing cats in India struggle to survive outside protected areas

Mongabay
Apr 4, 2025, 10:36 am108 pts
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, mid-sized wildcats lives outside protected areas, putting them at high risk of road accidents and retaliatory killing,…

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