FISHING CAT

- Scientific name: Prionailurus viverrinus

- It has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 2016.
- Current population trend: decreasing
The fishing cat lives foremost in the vicinity of wetlands, because of that
their populations are threatened by destruction of wetlands and have
declined rapidily over the last decade.
- Resident: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka, Thailand and maybe Vietnam.
- Characteristic: The fishing cat has a deep yellowish-grey fur with black lines
and spots. Two stripes are on the cheeks, and two above the eyes running to
the neck with broken lines on the forehead.
- Behavior: building house near water, having an ability to swim for a long
distance, fish is their main prey
- Habitat type: Forest, Shrubland, Grassland, Wetlands, Artificial
 The fishing cat is strongly associated with wetlands, inhabiting swamps and
marshy areas around oxbow lakes, reed beds, tidal creeks and mangrove
forests; it seems less abundant around smaller, fast-moving watercourses.
Most records are from lowland areas.
- Threaten:
 Housing and urban areas development destroys the fishing cat’s habitat.
 Pollution: waste water from living, industrial and military effluents,
deforestation for agriculture, garbage
 Biological resources use: being hunted and trapped by poachers, fishing
and harvesting aquatic resources lead to the shortage of food for fishing
cat.