Panda protection effort aids other rare wildlife

Over the past summer season, snow leopards were photographed by five different infrared cameras in Pingwu county, Sichuan province, at an altitude of about 4,200 meters, surprising many wildlife scientists.

The footage confirmed that the distribution of the predator in China's southwestern mountains has expanded eastward, says Yang Yi, a senior communications officer of the World Wildlife Fund.

Pingwu in northern Sichuan is famous for being home to a large number of wild giant pandas. The fourth national survey of giant pandas in 2015 found that there were 1,864 wild giant pandas in China, including 335 in Pingwu.