Consider the following statements:

The first fishing cat census outside of a protected area network was conducted at Chilika Lake.

Fishing cat was protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act.

It is classified as critically endangered in IUCN Red List.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Question

Recently, the fishing cat census has been done in Chilika The total number of feline species was discovered to be 176.This was the first time a population estimate of the fishing cat was undertaken outside of a protected area network anywhere in the globe. The Chilika Development Authority (CDA) collaborated with The Fishing Cat Project to undertake the estimating study (TFCP).
The Spatially Explicit Capture-Recapture (SECR)approach was used to analyse the data.
They are protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act in India, the same classification as the country’s national animal, the tiger.
The IUCN Red List classifies the species as endangered.
The fishing cat is included in Appendix II of Article IV of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

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Recently, the fishing cat census has been done in Chilika The total number of feline species was discovered to be 176.This was the first time a population estimate of the fishing cat was undertaken outside of a protected area network anywhere in the globe. The Chilika Development Authority (CDA) collaborated with The Fishing Cat Project to undertake the estimating study (TFCP).
The Spatially Explicit Capture-Recapture (SECR)approach was used to analyse the data.
They are protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act in India, the same classification as the country’s national animal, the tiger.
The IUCN Red List classifies the species as endangered.
The fishing cat is included in Appendix II of Article IV of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

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