Research overview: GPS-tracking fishing cat movement through city canals

GPS-collaring of fishing cats in Colombo has revealed how individuals thread through a labyrinth of canals, marsh fragments, gardens and roads, exposing the connectivity needs of a wetland predator in a built environment. This overview synthesises movement-ecology findings on home-range size, nocturnal activity, use of canal banks as travel routes, and crossings of roads and developed ground. It examines how telemetry pinpoints critical corridors and risk points for conservation action. The synthesis frames movement research as the empirical basis for protecting the wetland network that allows fishing cats to persist within a capital city.