India’s Caracal Conservation Plan: How Rajasthan Is Leading the ‘Siyahgosh’ Comeback

Across western India, the caracal, once widespread across its dry landscapes, is now close to local extinction.

But the good news is that recent findings in Rajasthan have confirmed the presence of a breeding population.

In the Thar, where survival is already calibrated to scarcity, the stress was visible in the thinning margins for species that have long lived at the edge.

Among them was the caracal.

Known locally as Siyahgosh, or ‘black ear’, the elusive wild cat has moved so…