The workout will be performed in other locations too, and, if the breeding program for West Bengal’s state animal ends up being effective, numerous of the fishing cats to be born will be launched into their natural environment by 2024.
A preservation breeding program has actually been introduced in a zoo in West Bengal to secure the fishing cat, a ‘vulnerable’ types, state Forest Minister Jyotipriya Mallick said.
The workout will be performed in other locations too, and, if the breeding program for West Bengal’s state animal ends up being effective, numerous of the fishing cats to be born will be launched into their natural environment by 2024.
The program began at Garchumuk Zoological Garden in Howrah district and it will be performed in districts like Bankura and Jhargram in the southern part of the state and a couple of locations in the north, Mallick said.
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The Conservation Breeding Programme is the science of saving a types by avoiding impending population collapse in the wild due to a a great deal of eliminative pressures such as environment loss, environment fragmentation, industrialisation, poaching, prohibited trade and environment modification, an authorities said.
The preservation breeding program focus on saving the hereditary variety of the types and restocking or reestablishing the types to re-establish a self-sufficient population in its natural wild environment, the authorities said. “A total of six to eight pairs of fishing cats are expected to be released into their natural habitat in 2024,” Member Secretary of West Bengal Zoo Authority, Sourav Choudhury, said.
The fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) or ‘Baghrol’ in Bengali is a medium-sized wildcat that is discovered in the Indian subcontinent and parts of south-east Asia. Certain qualities enable the animal, which has actually been referred to as a ‘vulnerable’ types, to endure in wet, watery conditions.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Vulnerable is a classification consisting of those types that have an extremely high threat of termination as an outcome of fast population decrease.
Besides Garchumuk Zoological Garden, the zoo in Kolkata’s Alipore has actually at first been picked for the conservative breeding of the fishing cat, Choudhury said.
A research study is underway to recognize the locations where the animals born in captivity might be launched. “The study is needed to find out whether the people in and around the places where the fishing cats would be released, would be friendly enough so that the animals could survive,” Choudhury said.
The objective is to decrease human disturbance as much as possible prior to the animals are launched into their natural environment, he said.
Initially, Jharkhali in the Sundarbans in South 24 Parganas district has actually been picked for launching the fishing cats reproduced in captivity. The location was picked after a research study was performed there, the authorities said.
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Similar research studies are being performed in districts such as Howrah, Hooghly, Purba and Paschim Bardhaman to learn whether these animals might be launched in those locations.
The forest minister likewise said that a few of these animals will be shown at the Bengal Safari Zoo at Siliguri in the northern part of the state.
The Alipore Zoological Garden and Garchumuk Zoological Garden had actually been picked for the establishing of a fishing cat preservation centre at the 20th technical committee conference of West Bengal Zoo Authority kept in April 2021.
First released on: 13-08-2023 at 12:20 IST
