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Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Short Communication Records of the Marbled Cat Pardofelis marmorata and the Asiatic Golden Cat Catopuma temminckii (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) from the community forests surround- ing the Dzükou Valley in Nagaland, India Bhavendu Joshi, Biang La Nam Syiem, Rokohebi Kuotsu, Arjun Menon, Jayanta Gogoi, Varun Rshav Goswami & Divya Vasudev 26 August 2019 | Vol. 11 | No. 10 | Pages: 14363–14367 DOI: 10.11609/jot.4921.11.10.14363-14367 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies, and Guidelines visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints, contact <[email protected]> The opinions expressed by the authors do not refect the views of the Journal of Threatened Taxa, Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society, Zoo Outreach Organizaton, or any of the partners. 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Partner Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 August 2019 | 11(10): 14363–14367 Records of the Marbled Cat Pardofelis marmorata and the Asiatic Golden Cat Catopuma temminckii (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) from the community forests surrounding ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) the Dzükou Valley in Nagaland, India ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Communication Short PLATINUM 1 2 3 4 Bhavendu Joshi , Biang La Nam Syiem , Rokohebi Kuotsu , Arjun Menon , OPEN ACCESS Jayanta Gogoi 5 , Varun Rshav Goswami 6 & Divya Vasudev 7 1–7 Wildlife Conservaton Society-India, 551, 7th Main Road, 2nd Stage, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560097, India. 1–7 Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560097, India. 6,7 Conservaton Initatves, Guwahat, Assam 781022, India. 1 [email protected], 2 [email protected], 3 [email protected], 4 [email protected], 5 [email protected], 6 [email protected], 7 [email protected] (corresponding author) Abstract: Northeastern India, situated within the Indo-Burma and The region of northeastern India has historically eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot complex, is known for its high been known to harbour a rich community of wild felids diversity of wild felid species. For most of these species, however, data on distributon and populaton trends are limited. Here, we present numbering up to 11 species (Menon 2014). There is a photographic records of the Marbled Cat Pardofelis marmorata and paucity of informaton on the current distributon of Asiatc Golden Cat Catopuma temminckii from outside protected areas in the state of Nagaland. These records are from community forests most of these species within the region. Two species around the Dzükou Valley in Nagaland and are some of the few records for which informaton on distributon and populaton of the species from the state. The confrmed presence of the two parameters is unavailable are the Marbled Cat Pardofelis species highlights the pivotal role of community-managed forests in the conservaton of endangered species in the region. marmorata and the Asiatc Golden Cat Catopuma temminckii (McCarthy et al. 2015; Ross et al. 2016). Both Keywords: Community-based conservaton, distributon, felids, species are elusive and are known to inhabit remote northeastern India. forest areas (Sunquist & Sunquist 2017). They are listed as Near Threatened under criteria A and C of the IUCN Red List (McCarthy et al. 2015; Ross et al. 2016) and are DOI: htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4921.11.10.14363-14367 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5997841A-2FC4-46BC-8A59-4C5B2F993F0D Editor: Jim Sanderson, Small Wild Cat Conservaton Foundaton, Hartord, USA. Date of publicaton: 26 August 2019 (online & print) Manuscript details: #4921 | Received 01 March 2019 | Final received 24 April 2019 | Finally accepted 27 June 2019 Citaton: Joshi, B., B.L.N. Syiem, R. Kuotsu, A. Menon, J. Gogoi, V.R. Goswami & D. Vasudev (2019). Records of the Marbled Cat Pardofelis marmorata and the Asi- atc Golden Cat Catopuma temminckii (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) from the community forests surrounding the Dzükou Valley in Nagaland, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(10): 14363–14367. htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4921.11.10.14363-14367 Copyright: © Joshi et al. 2019. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of this artcle in any medium by adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Funding: (i) Internatonal Union for Conservaton of Nature–KfW—Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservaton Program; (ii) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—Great Ape Conservaton Fund; and (iii) the Department of Science and Technology—INSPIRE Fellowship Program. Competng interests: The authors declare no competng interests. Acknowledgements: We are thankful to the Internatonal Union for Conservaton of Nature–KfW—Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservaton Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—Great Ape Conservaton Fund and the Department of Science and Technology—INSPIRE Fellowship Program for their fnancial assistance to the project. We would also like to thank the village council chairman and council members from Khonoma, Dzüleke, Jotsoma, Benreu, and Khuzama for permitng us to work in their villages and providing on-ground support. Finally, we are thankful to the villagers who helped us as guides during the course of the feldwork. 14363 Marbled and Asiatc Golden cats in Nagaland Joshi et al. also CITES Appendix I species, fully protected over their forests and likely play a signifcant role in the persistence range by natonal legislaton. Within India, both species of endangered species. For instance, FSI (2017) reports are protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protecton 78% geographical cover of forests in the state of Act, 1972 (Anonymous 1972). Nagaland, while government-owned PAs consttute less Confrmed records of the Marbled Cat within than 2% of the state. Similarly, nearly 80% of Meghalaya northeastern India have been from the states of Assam is covered by forests (FSI 2017), while less than 2% of (Kakat 2009), Arunachal Pradesh (Data et al. 2008; the state falls under PAs (ENVIS 2018). Data on the status Lyngdoh et al. 2011a; Selvan et al. 2013), Mizoram of endangered wildlife from community-owned forests, (Sethy et al. 2017; Singh & Macdonald 2017), and however, are critcally limited. The northeastern Indian Nagaland (Grewal et al. 2011; Longchar 2013) (Table state of Nagaland, with large tracts of community-owned 1). In additon, the Marbled Cat has been reported forests, has also faced problems of data paucity. Here, from the adjoining state of West Bengal (Biswas et al. we report live records of the Marbled Cat and the Asiatc 1999). The Asiatc Golden Cat has been recorded in Golden Cat from community forests in Nagaland. Assam (Kakat 2009), Arunachal Pradesh (Data et al. 2008; Lyngdoh et al. 2011a,b), Mizoram (Gouda et Methods al. 2016; Singh & Macdonald 2017), Sikkim (Bashir et We undertook camera trap surveys in fve villages al. 2011), and recently, for the frst tme, in Nagaland surrounding Dzükou Valley (Fig. 1); these surveys were (Longchar et al. 2017). The species has been recorded part of a larger ongoing efort aimed at understanding in the neighbouring region of Neora Valley and in other the distributon of diferent mammal species in locatons in West Bengal as well (Chaterjee et al. 2018). community forests across Nagaland. Dzükou Valley A majority of these records are from within or near is an ecologically important high-elevaton grassland government-managed protected areas (PAs; Table 1). ecosystem surrounded by semi-evergreen and evergreen In the hill states of northeastern India, community- forests (Grewal et al. 2011). The forests of Dzükou Valley owned lands hold a sizeable proporton of the region’s are contguous with the Puliebadze Wildlife Sanctuary, Figure 1. Villages in Nagaland State in India where the Marbled Cat and the Asiatc Golden Cat were recorded. 14364 Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 August 2019 | 11(10): 14363–14367 Marbled and Asiatc Golden cats in Nagaland Joshi et al. Khonoma Nature Conservaton and Tragopan Sanctuary, of Jotsoma Village (Images 3, 4). These images of the and several other community-managed forests. Asiatc Golden Cat were obtained along the same ridge Preliminary research indicated high biodiversity in the in two neighbouring camera trap locatons. All four landscape (Grewal et al. 2011). detectons were obtained between 07.00h and 08.30h. From January to May 2018, we conducted surveys In additon to the sightng of these two species, our in the villages
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