Researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have recorded a Chinese pangolin in the forests bordering Shillong, the first time the species has turned up in the institute’s study area.
The animal is classified as critically endangered. The sighting came from camera traps set up for WII’s project on mammal communities in Meghalaya, which covers the Riat Laban and Laitkor reserve forests on the city’s fringes.
The institute described the find as a rare record.
The same cameras photographed several other animals sharing these forests: the large Indian civet, leopard cat, masked palm civet, yellow-throated marten, Indian crested porcupine and kalij pheasant
Researchers say forests on the edges of cities tend to be ignored, even though they give shelter to species squeezed by fragmented habitat and urban expansion.
(Northeast News)
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