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Naidu, A.; Kantimahanti, M.; Kumar, N.P.; Thompson, K.; Sreedhar, S.S.; Rao, A.
Recent records of fishing cat and its conservation in coastal South India
2015 Cat News (62): 7-9
In coastal South India, the first published records of confirmed evidence-based observations of fishing cats _Prionailurus viverrinus _were in 2006, and then again in 2012 and 2014, all from the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary in the state of Andhra Pradesh. With the use of recent local news articles, interviews with local people, field tracking, and camera-trap surveys outside protected areas, we recorded fishing cats in several more locations along the coastline of Andhra Pradesh from November 2013 until August 2014. We present our findings through an online, interactive map and promote the need for data sharing on fishing cats. Based on the reports and our preliminary findings, we surmise that the Krishna and Coringa Wildlife Sanctuaries and proximal mangroves probably hold the southernmost, sizeable populations of fishing cats in India. We also provide details on needed community-based measures for the long-term conservation of fishing cats in this region.
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