Northwest China's Qinghai Province is home to Pallas's cats, snow leopards, and Chinese desert cats, which were three of the celebrity wild cat species that flooded Chinese social media feeds in 2021. Reports have indicated that there are four Pallas's cats, eleven snow leopards, and five Chinese desert cats living at the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Wildlife Zoo in Xining city, Qinghai Province, making it the wildlife park with the largest number of rescued and live rare big cats of these three species in China.
In early winter, tens of thousands of wild birds have flocked to the mangrove forest in Mu'an village of Hepu county, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for overwintering. Hepu county has become an ideal habitat for various kinds of migratory birds, including egrets, herons, cattle egrets, avocets, sea gulls, ducks, and so on.
Photo shows cabot's tragopan in Wuyanling National Nature Reserve, east China's Zhejiang Province. It is under first-class protection in China.
Congcong, a male black bearded saki cub born on July 22, 2021, meets public at Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 16, 2021.