{"id":28572,"date":"2021-02-17T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/feb\/17\/the-fight-to-save-worlds-elusive-fishing-cats-india-aoe"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:30:17","slug":"gone-fishing-the-fight-to-save-one-of-the-worlds-most-elusive-wild-cats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28572","title":{"rendered":"Gone fishing: the fight to save one of the world&#8217;s most elusive wild cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With webbed feet and a tail for a rudder, Asia\u2019s fishing cats face shrinking habitats. But conservation efforts in West Bengal are helping it swim against the tide<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, wildlife biologist Tiasa Adhya has spent many a day (and night) in a small wooden boat, silently gliding through dense vegetation in the wetlands and mangroves of West Bengal, scanning the banks for signs of a rarely seen wild cat \u2013 the fishing cat <em>(<\/em><em>Prionailurus viverrinus<\/em><em>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>Fishing cats are fascinating animals,\u201d she says. \u201cThey have co-inhabited riverine deltas and floodplains alongside humans for centuries. Ancient cultures like the Khmer empire show evidence of fishing cats.\u201d As co-founder of the world\u2019s longest-running fishing cat research and conservation project, Kolkata-based Adhya is dedicated to this endangered felid, one of the least-studied and understood wildcats.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/feb\/17\/the-fight-to-save-worlds-elusive-fishing-cats-india-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With webbed feet and a tail for a rudder, Asia\u2019s fishing cats face shrinking habitats. But conservation efforts in West Bengal are helping it swim against the tideFor more than a decade, wildlife biologist Tiasa Adhya has spent many a day (and night) i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,973,456,65,62,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-biodiversity","category-conservation","category-environment","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28573,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28572\/revisions\/28573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}