Footage of multiple species of wild animals was captured by infrared cameras at the Baima Mountain Nature Reserve in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality.

According to the staff of the nature reserve, when sorting out footage caught by far-infrared cameras in spring this year, they found nine species of wild animals, including four species of state-protected animals. In the footage, staff discovered that civet cats were found in the area for the first time, and the Elliot’s laughingthrush and red-tailed laughingthrush were found in southeast Chongqing for the first time.

“It’s truly remarkable that we spotted a mother Temminck’s tragopan, China’s second-class state-protected animal, foraging with its kid. The footage shows that the bio-environment in Baima Mountain Nature Reserve continues to improve, the population of wild animals at the reserve expands, and remarkable achievements have been made in biodiversity protection,” said Li Yi, deputy director of the nature reserve’s management office.

Since 2021, the more than 70 far-infrared cameras installed have recorded many rare wild animals.