Indus Fishing Cat Project

29/11/2025

Every animal in Rani Bagh Zoo depends on us for its wellbeing. We appeal to the management to improve conditions and ensure these lives are treated with the care, respect, and love they deserve 🙏

28/11/2025

28/11/2025

PICA is proud to co-host a side event at the CITES CoP in Samarkand spotlighting the Silk Road’s small cats! 🌍🐾

The event will introduce Central Asia’s unique and often underrepresented small wild cats, including the Pallas’s cat, sand cat, jungle cat, caracal, Asiatic wildcat and Turkestan lynx.😻

We’ll be highlighting the need to better understand how trade-related pressures impact local populations, to deepen knowledge of their conservation needs, and strengthen conservation capacity for small cats across the region.

The event is jointly organized by PICA, the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection & Climate Change of Uzbekistan, Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences Uzbekistan, the IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group, Team Bars Turkmenistan and Conservation X Labs

Nordens ArkRoyal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS)

27/11/2025

27/11/2025

26/11/2025

We are very thrilled to share our team's first-ever camera trap photo of Smooth-coated Otters of race sindica (the endemic subspecies of Pakistan)! A milestone moment for our team and a hopeful sign for this species in the region. 🦦✨

Credits: Waqar Marri/ IFCP

26/11/2025

What a capture!!!

18/11/2025

18/11/2025

A curious little Desert Fox from Kirthar National Park of Pakistan made a surprise appearance on our camera trap! 📸

While these foxes usually stick to the drier, scrubbier edges of the landscape, this youngster was roaming right beside the wetland—the same habitat used by the elusive Fishing Cat.

Moments like this remind us how connected these ecosystems are, with different species sharing the same space in their own unique ways.

Huge thanks to the Indus Fishing Cat Project team for catching this adorable visitor on camera! 🦊📸

Camera trapping credits: Shafi/Indus Fishing Cat Project

12/11/2025

https://smallcatsymposium.org/

Join a global symposium to explore small wild cat research, share conservation strategies, and connect with wildlife experts and enthusiasts.

23/10/2025

Our Caracal News just got featured by Dawn Media Group!

Dawn covered our recent Caracal sighting at Kirthar National Park, one of the rarest wildcats in Pakistan, and something we've been working tirelessly to document. The article highlights just how close these magnificent cats are to local extinction and why every single camera trap capture matters.

Caracals in Pakistan are nearly mythical at this point. With fewer than 100 individuals estimated to remain in scattered pockets across the Cholistan Desert, the Kirthar Range, and Balochistan highlands, each piece of visual evidence gives us hope that we haven't lost them yet.

We are grateful to Dawn Media Group for amplifying this critical conservation message and to everyone who has been part of this journey of documenting Pakistan's disappearing wildcats.

Read the full article:

Habitat loss, human intrusion and retaliatory killings have led the rare caracal cat to critically endangered status.

21/10/2025

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2571934/caracal-sightings-offer-hope

Pakistan's rare wild cat nears local extinction