Footage of a snow leopard raising her three cubs was recorded by an infrared camera at an elevation of 3,800 meters at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The footage is part of the first round of monitoring data of snow leopards in 2019 recently published by the nature reserve.

The first time the infrared cameras recorded the snow leopard mother raising her three cubs was in June and July of 2017.

"The places for recording footage of two snow leopard families were both located at an altitude of about 3,000 meters and the linear distance between two places is about 13 kilometers. The footage we recorded signify that the Wolong National Nature Reserve located in the high mountains provides adequate food to snow leopards and that they are living well and reproducing healthily," said Duan Zhaogang, a staff member at the Wolong National Nature Reserve. 

Snow leopards are classified as endangered animals by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.  They are also under top-class national protection in China. They live in mountainous regions at an altitude of 2,500 to 5,000 meters. 

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