3 Fishing Cats Fixed With Radio Collars In Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary

Vijayawada: For the first time in the country, three fishing cats were caught and the radio was caught in the Coringa Wildlife Protection Area. One was a man, two women. A few more will be built and their population will be estimated until the end of 2025.

In collaboration with the EP Forest Department, a team of experts from the Indian Wildlife Institute carried out a study on the 1972, Wildlife Fisheries’ List of Animals in the list of Program-i Animals.

Experts, fisherman cat’s habitat, movement range, food habits, scat, and even make an estimation of the population.

Three fishing cats and fixed radio collars successfully capture Wii experts from Dehradun watch their movements and other features.

Authorities are planning to correct their radio collar to several fisherman cats to follow their movements.

The fixation of the radio collar was made to monitor the movements of fisherman cats because of the fact that these animals enter fish pools in neighboring regions and eat fish regularly. This creates problems for fishermen and peasants who grow fish in the pools.

With the fixation of radio collar, the authorities, fishermen and peasants are planning to regularly be sensitive about the movements of fishing cats. This will allow them not to lose their fish in the pools.

According to a census at the Coringa Wildlife Conservation Area, there were 115 fishing cats in 2019. Another estimate of their population continues in 2025.

Ravindranath Redy, Kakinada Regional Forestry Officer, said, “At the end of 2025, several fishing cats would be fixed with radio collars.” He said.

Fisherman Cats program was launched in 2021 to estimate their population and to correct radio collar. For this reason, some of the funds would be mobilized from private companies within the scope of corporate social responsibility provision. The program is likely to be completed by the end of this year.