{"id":67806,"date":"2020-10-29T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=67806"},"modified":"2021-02-04T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T10:19:04","slug":"fishing-cat-is-now-ambassador-of-chilika-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fishing-cat-is-now-ambassador-of-chilika-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing cat is now ambassador of Chilika Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Chilika Development Authority(CDA) has designated the fishing cat as ambassador which is being called as an important step towards conservation of the vulnerable species.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"fishing cat\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/654FJ5Rt86rBX3_89O_fJJuZDeDU0I9LH-YIvUHL2U-RqLBuJ89eKZgzQQTbT6-CGe5NaHw6bDjlwmPIS9bEznn_Yu07INW8yyix5vQ05CTAN2GD-lfGdWuD0923sP77Nr3yWzv3\" alt=\"fishing cat\" width=\"220\" height=\"147\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Fishing Cat: <\/strong>It is a medium-sized wildcat found in South and Southeast Asia.They are nocturnal and are an adept swimmer which enters water frequently to prey on fish and other animals.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: In India, fishing cats are mainly found in the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, on the foothills of the Himalayas along the Ganga and Brahmaputra river valleys and in the Western Ghats.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>: In 2012, the West Bengal government officially declared the Fishing Cat as the State Animal.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List:<\/strong> Vulnerable.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>CITES<\/strong>: Appendix II<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Indian Wildlife Protection Act,1972: <\/strong>Schedule I<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Threat<\/strong>: Habitat Destruction, Hunting, Ritual Practices, Poaching among others.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Chilka Lake:<\/strong>It is Asia\u2019s largest brackish water lake spread over districts of Odisha at the mouth of the Daya River, flowing into the Bay of Bengal.\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>In 1981, Chilika Lake was designated the first Indian wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Chilika Development Authority(CDA) has designated the fishing cat as ambassador which is being called as an important step towards conservation of the vulnerable species. Facts: Fishing Cat: It is a medium-sized wildcat found in South and Southeast Asia.They are nocturnal and are an adept swimmer which enters water frequently to prey on fish&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fishing-cat-is-now-ambassador-of-chilika-lake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fishing cat is now ambassador of Chilika Lake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":75038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[1316],"class_list":["post-67806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment-ecology","tag-env_2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fishing-cat-is-now-ambassador-of-Chilika-Lake.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704956168},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}