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World’s first fishing cat survey
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- World’s first fishing cat survey took place at the Chilika Lake in Odisha.
- It has provided the world’s first population estimation of the fishing cat.
- This lake has 176 fishing cats.
- The Chilika Lake is the Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon in Odisha.
- Fishing Cats were declared the State animal by West Bengal in 2012.
- The Chilika authorities announced in 2020 that the fishing cat was the lake’s ambassador.
- The fishing cats are endangered worldwide.
- Within their range of countries, they are classed as Vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
- Fishing Cat is a schedule I species under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.
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